Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Happy-family
subs. (colloquial).—See quot.
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1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, iii., p. 224. HAPPY FAMILIES, or assemblages of animals of diverse habits and propensities living amicably, or at least quietly, in one cage.
