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ˈhappy-go-ˈlucky, adv., a. (and n.)
A. adv. Just as it may happen; as luck will have it; haphazard.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood i. i, You have your twenty guineas in your pocket for helping me into my service; and, if I get into Mrs. Martha's quarters, you have a hundred more—if into the widow's, fifty:—happy go lucky! 1699Sir T. Morgan Progr. France in Arb. Garner IV. 641 The Redcoats cried, ‘Shall we fall on in order, or happy-go-lucky’. 1705Hickeringill Priest-er iv. (1721) 238 Hittee Missee, happy go lucky, as the blind Man kill'd the Crow. 1802Sporting Mag. XX. 272 Messrs. Hubbards resisted [the action] on the plea of having sold him ‘happy go lucky’ (meaning the purchaser was to take him with all faults, for better for worse.)
B. adj. Of persons or their actions: Taking things as they happen to come; easy-going.
1856Reade Never too late xv, The first thing was to make Carter think and talk, which he did in the happy-go-lucky way of his class. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. vi. 241 There were never such comfortable, easy-going, happy-go-lucky people. 1880‘T. McGrath’ Pict. fr. Irel. 7 Forced habits of industry not natural to the happy-go-lucky Celt.
C. n.
a. A happy-go-lucky person.
b. Happy-go-lucky quality or character.
1851H. Melville Whale xxvii. 128 A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant. 1893S. Pope in Times, There had been a good deal of ‘happy-go-lucky’ in the manner in which the election was conducted.
Hence happy-go-luckiness; happy-go-luckyism nonce-wd.
1893Yonge & Coleridge Strolling Players xxii. 187 Her Irish happy-go-luckiness. 1928S.P.E. Tract xxix. 269 The fertility and happy-go-luckiness of Elizabethan English. 1952G. Raverat Period Piece iii. 49 The casual happy-go-luckiness..which was one of her most attractive qualities. 1889Earl of Desart Little Chatelaine II. xxiv. 136 The atmosphere of happy-go-luckyism she had come into. |