Meaning of "demob-happy" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF DEMOB-HAPPY

demob-happy

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMOB-HAPPY

Demob-Happy is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEMOB-HAPPY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of demob-happy in the English dictionary

The definition of demob-happy in the dictionary is feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces. Other definition of demob-happy is feeling elated and carefree in anticipation of the end of any onerous or unpleasant period.

TRANSLATION OF DEMOB-HAPPY

Find out the translation of demob-happy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of demob-happy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demob-happy» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: demob开心
• Translator English - Spanish: - demob feliz
• English: demob-happy
• Translator English - Hindi: demob खुश
• Translator English - Arabic: - demob سعيد
• Translator English - Russian: дембеля счастливый
• Translator English - Portuguese: demob - feliz
• Translator English - Bengali: সৈন্যদল ভেঙে দেবার ফলে সৈন্যবিশেষের মুক্তি-খুশি
• Translator English - French: démobilisé - heureux
• Translator English - Malay: Demob-happy
• Translator English - German: Demob -happy
• Translator English - Japanese: 復員兵、幸せ
• Translator English - Korean: demob - 행복
• Translator English - Javanese: Demob-happy
• Translator English - Vietnamese: demob - hạnh phúc
• Translator English - Tamil: படைக் கலைப்புச் செய்-சந்தோஷமாக
• Translator English - Marathi: डेमो-हॅप्पी
• Translator English - Turkish: demob-mutlu
• Translator English - Italian: demob - felice
• Translator English - Polish: demob - szczęśliwa
• Translator English - Ukrainian: дембеля щасливий
• Translator English - Romanian: - demobiliza fericit
• Translator English - Greek: demob - ευτυχισμένη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: demob -happy
• Translator English - Swedish: demob -happy
• Translator English - Norwegian: demob -happy

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMOB-HAPPY»

Discover the use of demob-happy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demob-happy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Disappeared: A Jenny Cooper Mystery

“He was laughing, cracking jokes . . . like someone who was demob happy. And I was quite far gone, to be honest. I don't think I put up too much resistance. It just sort of happened.” “Did you see him again?” “No. Never.” “And you've no idea ...

M. R. Hall, 2011

Ye Wee Italian Bastird

... dripped a quarter cup of green paint. He was watching me, said nothing, turned and left. I don't know if he took heed or not I was on a different job next day. DEMOB HAPPY Demob had me helping in the chip shop. 83 Ye Wee Italian Bastird.

Ron Rossi, 2010

One More Sleepless Night

He'd been demob happy and hell— bent on making up for lost time and she'd been only too willing to help. So he hadn't stopped to think about what effect their whirlwind romance might have had on her and it had never occurred to him that ...

Lucy King, 2013

Television: Policy and Culture

Obviously demob happy attheend of hisperiod of office at Channel 4,heturned to Ron Todd, theGeneral Secretary oftheTGWU, who was onthe platform withother members ofthe Leftestablishment and asked him whyhe'dwasted his members' ...

Richard Collins, 2005

Hong Kong Revisited

Pritchard and repeating my thanks for his comment I turned and marched out past the by now diminishing line of demob happy soldiers. When outside in the daylight I looked at the form, it was a Regimental Award for service to the Regiment ...

Trooper 7H, 2007

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Future ...

... call “demob-happy”: not disposed to take the constraints of shipboard life too seriously when freedom was only a few short months away. Matrose Quirini, the broken-bottle enthusiast, was one of the latter class. Once I had finished my ...

John Biggins, 2006

The Choice

Now I no longer fretted about an early demob, happy to stay on in Germany for as long as the Army decreed. I saw Lisa whenever my work and her commitments at the theatre allowed and rather shamefully ingratiated myself with her parents, ...

Bryan Forbes, 2007

Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent ...

He started to become a little demob happy. In the runup to Christmas, therewas an air of carefree excitement atthe Nantes Dienststelle. Therewereplans forgrand celebrations: geese werebeing fattened, aswas Bobby, by now achubby ...

Nicholas Booth, 2013

Shallow Roots

He is demob happy and with five months to go before retirement, is expressing a concern for his patients that has not furrowed his brow in his previous 35 years of practice. Pam Smith has stabbed me in the back. She has gone directly to Nigel ...

Jim Roberts, 2007

The Translation of the Bones: A Novel

It would be their last patrol. They were warned against becoming demob happy. Much closer to St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, but further away from home, Kiti Men- doza and her Auntie Rita were filling spring-roll wrappers with shredded pork and  ...

Francesca Kay, 2014

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMOB-HAPPY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demob-happy is used in the context of the following news items.

Premier League fixtures 2015/16: 6 things we learnt

It only seems like yesterday that Brendan Rodgers' hapless Reds were rolling over and surrendering to a demob-happy Potters side on the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»

Dick Advocaat's detachment adds credibility to Sunderland survival bid

It may be an exaggeration to call Advocaat demob-happy but he spoke with the air of man with nothing left to prove. Perhaps he is liberated by ... «The Guardian, May 15»