English edit

Etymology edit

slaphappy +‎ -ness

Noun edit

slaphappiness (uncountable)

  1. Condition of being slaphappy
    • 1990 April 13, Mary Shen Barnidge, “What I Need Is a Good Bonk on the Head”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Although there are traces of improv-comedy slaphappiness here and there, Langer has thought through his thesis and his different levels of reality carefully.
    • 1994 September 16, Maura Troester, “Body and Soul”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      The premiere of Billy Siegenfeld's Getting There, however, does get there: these dancers seem real people on the streets whose emotions run the gamut from trepidation to snappy slaphappiness.