Word.ws English Dictionary

happy cornering

happy cornering is the present participle of happy corner.

Meaning of happy corner

Verb

happy corner (third-person singular simple present happy corners, present participle happy cornering, simple past and past participle happy cornered)

  1. (Hong-Kong) To perform such a prank on someone.
    • Hong Kong is many things. It is having all the showers busy in your hostel at 2 a.m. It is taking every photo with a “victory” sign. It is singing karaoke until 6 a.m. and taking the KCR home. It is falling asleep on the KCR and waking up in Lo Wu. It is running around “happy cornering” each other.2004 April, “Let's enjoy life in this crazy and unique city”, in Varsity

See all 2 meanings of happy corner

Questions about happy cornering

What is happy cornering the present participle of?
Happy cornering is the present participle of happy corner.

Words near happy cornering in the dictionary

  1. Happy Christmases
  2. happy clapper
  3. happy clappers
  4. happy corner
  5. happy cornered
  6. happy cornering
  7. happy corners
  8. happy day scenario
  9. happy day scenarios
  10. happy days
  11. happy despatch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: happy cornering (page history and authors); happy corner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “happy cornering.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/happy_cornering. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.