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dance-happy

dance-happy adjective: having a tendency or desire to dance; prone to dancing.

Adjective

dance-happy (comparative more dance-happy, superlative most dance-happy)

  1. Having a tendency or desire to dance; prone to dancing.
    • They supported my “What is Dance” project which brought dance right into our local schools and reached hundreds and hundreds of dance-happy kids.2001, Susan Filipiak, “Mistaken Identity”, in The Gasbag, issue 218, 6
    • We hope that you do catch this excitement and remain dance-happy for the rest of your life … if not as a dancer then as a dance advocate, dance audience, and dance enthusiast.2005, Helene Scheff, RDE, Marty Sprague, MA, and Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Experiencing Dance. From Student to Dance Artist, publ. by Human Kinetics, vi.

Forms of dance-happy

comparativemore dance-happy
superlativemost dance-happy

Origin of dance-happy

From dance + happy.

Questions about dance-happy

What does dance-happy mean?
Dance-happy means having a tendency or desire to dance; prone to dancing.
What part of speech is dance-happy?
Dance-happy is an adjective.

Words near dance-happy in the dictionary

  1. dance-dramas
  2. dance-goer
  3. dance-goers
  4. dance-hall
  5. dance-halls
  6. dance-happy
  7. dance-off
  8. dance-offs
  9. dance-pop
  10. dance-time
  11. danceability

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