Definition of BARMY

barmy

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • marked by spirited enjoyment
  • informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adj

  • 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”).
  • Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.
  • Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange.
  • Very foolish.

Noun

  • plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”)

Origin / Etymology

From barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Barm is derived from Middle English berm, berme (“foam rising upon ale or beer fermenting; leaven, yeast; foam or head of beer produced by pouring”) [and other forms], from Old English beorma (“foam or head of beer; leaven, yeast”), from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“barm; yeast”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”) or *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”).

Synonyms

5150, aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, apeshit, around the bend, asinine, balmy, bananas, barking, barking mad, barmy, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, bats, batshit, batty, bedaft, bizarre, bonkers, bread baskets, buggish, buggy, bughouse, cra-cra, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, dense, deranged, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, distraught, disturbed, doolally, dopey, dotty, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, excentrical, extraordinary, far-out, fatuous, freakish, fruit loops, fruity, fucked in the head, fucked up, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gaga, gauvison, goofy, harebrained, hatstand, haywire, heteroclite, idiocentric, idiosyncratic, idiotic, idle, insane, insipient, irregular, kookie, kookish, kooky, loco, loon, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, mookish, moonsick, naive, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nutbar, nuts, nutso, nutter, nutty, odd, oddballish, off the beam, off the chain, off-centre, outlandish, outré, over the edge, peculiar, pixilated, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, queer, quirky, quizzy, ripshit, round the bend, screwy, sicko, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, soft in the head, softheaded, sottish, spacy, squirrelly, starkers, stupid, thick, tonto, unbalanced, uncommon, unsage, unsane, unwise, wackadoodle, wacko, wacky, weird, whackjob, whacko, whacky, whimsical, whimsome, wifty, wode, Wodehousian, Wonkaesque, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yampy, yeasty, zany, zestful, zesty

Scrabble Score: 12

barmy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
barmy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
barmy is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

barmy is a valid Words With Friends word