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Answer for the clue "Short cheer of happiness ", 3 letters:
yay

Alternative clues for the word yay

"Woo-hoo!"
"I completed the crossword!"
Cry of delight
Triumphant cry
"Great news!"
Exclamation of celebration
Cheerleader's shout
Joyful cry

Word definitions for yay in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"this," as in yay big "this big," 1950s, perhaps from yea "yes" in its sense of "even, truly, verily." "a sort of demonstrative adverb used with adjectives of size, height, extent, etc., and often accompanied by a hand gesture indicating size" [DAS].

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 adv. (context chiefly US English) so, this (accompanied by a hand gesture) interj. 1 (context colloquial English) (alternative form of yea nodot=1 English) (gloss: yes). 2 (context colloquial English) (non-gloss definition: An expression of ...