Reveling in personal gain associated with someone else's loss; not to be confused with schadenfreude, in which one takes pleasure from another's pain.
After hearing the news that a new freelancer had bombed on a writing project, Alan and Laura, also freelance writers, felt a rush of halfenfreude at the prospect of additional work.
musician julian lennon, the son of british former beatle john lennon and japanese artist yoko ono, is a halfanese celebrity. so was deceased actor brandon lee, son of martial arts superstar bruce lee and american teacher linda lee caldwell.
The happiness that a person feels when, having eaten half of a terrific sandwich, they then remember that they have a whole other half to eat (a fact that they had forgotten in the bliss of that first half).
Midway through lunch today I experienced some profound halfiness when I looked down and beheld the second part of my reuben untouched.
The hypothetical man (often a sinistercharacter who decided not to go to boot camp) that is doing your girlfriend/wife while you are on deployment overseas.
Ain't no use in goin home,
Jody's got your girl and gone.
Ain't no use in goin back,
Jody's got your Cadillac,
Ain't no use in feeling blue,
Jody's took your checkbook too.
The ability girls and women have developed to hold several items at once in one hand. The skill has been developed due to the lack of pockets in women's clothing.
I thought she'd need multiple trips to carry her phone, keys, wallet, and Starbucks to her car since she needed the other hand to open the door, but she used her impressive girl grip to carry everything in one hand.