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barmy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective barmy has 2 senses
- barmy(s = adj.all) yeasty, zestful, zesty - marked by spirited enjoyment; Array
- barmy(s = adj.all) around the bend, balmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
barmy, adj. (barmier, barmiest) esp. Brit. sl. crazy, stupid.
Derivative
barmily adv. barminess n.
Etymology
earlier = frothy, f. BARM
THESAURUS
barmy
balmy, bananas, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, diastatic, dippy, dotty, enzymic, fermenting, flaky, flipped, foam-flecked, foamy, freaked-out, frothy, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, heady, just plain nuts, kooky, lathery, leavening, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, raising, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, wacky, working, yeasty
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