barmy
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/ / /ˈbɑɹmi/
adj
Etymology: Probably an alteration of balmy (“foolish; slightly crazy or mad, eccentric”), influenced by barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) (see etymology 1).
- Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange.
“[T]he exercise yard of the "barmy fellows," as he called the madmen, (meaning, I suppose, that their brains were in an unnatural state of working,) was but a stone's throw from himself and his rational companions, […]”
“"Bli'me if I know wot yer all talkin' abaht. You're all barmy on the crumpet," said Liza indignantly, and, turning her back on them, made for home.”
- Very foolish.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Russian бармы (barmy)bor. English barmy Borrowed from Russian бармы (barmy).
- plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”)