Barmy

Quick meaning: Barmy is an adjective meaning (figuratively) Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.

Meaning

(figuratively) Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.

More Meanings

1. Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange.
2. Very foolish.
3. plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”)
4. (also figuratively) Containing, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).

Example Sentences

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, / My barmie noddle's working prime, […]

[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]

"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.

Here the yeast is added to convert the sugars to alcohol, also producing carbon dioxide. After about 24 hours the fermentation has created a thick head of barmy foam […]

Word Forms

• barmier
• barmiest

Synonyms for barmy

Depending on context, synonyms include balmy, dotty, wacko, aberrant, abnormal, anomalous.

Antonyms for barmy

Common opposites include average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dotty, batty, loony, kooky, bonkers, insane.

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