Balmy vs Barmy - What's the difference?
balmy | barmy |
Producing balm.
Soothing or fragrant.
Mild and pleasant.
(informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
(rare) containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast
* Dryden
(chiefly, British) odd, strange.
* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' '' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
Barmy is a related term of balmy.
As adjectives the difference between balmy and barmy
is that balmy is producing balm while barmy is (rare) containing barm, ie froth from fermented yeast or barmy can be (chiefly|british) dotty, goofy, wacko.balmy
English
Adjective
(er)barmy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- Barmy beer.
Etymology 2
Probably an alteration ofAdjective
(er)- I thanked John, said the "oracle award" sounds like a made-up prize you'd give a fat kid on sports day – I should know, I used to get them – then that it's barmy that Hugo Boss can trade under the same name they flogged uniforms to the Nazis under and the ludicrous necessity for an event such as this one to banish such a lurid piece of information from our collective consciousness.