balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”
zestful, yeasty, zesty, barmy
(adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barmy (comparative barmier, superlative barmiest)
(rare) Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast.
barmy (comparative barmier, superlative barmiest)
(chiefly, British) Odd, strange, or crazy.
Synonyms: dotty, goofy, wacko
• in US English, balmy is usual for sense (2); elsewhere this is occasionally found but some authorities consider it erroneous, despite its probable etymology.
• Byram, Mabry, ambry
Source: Wiktionary
Barm"y, a.
Definition: Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.
Barm"y (bärm"y), a.
Definition: Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
