Barmy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Barmy \Barm"y\ (b[aum]rm"[y^]), a.
     Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  barmy
       adj 1: marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: {zestful}, {yeasty}, {zesty}]
       2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
          drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {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}]
       [also: {barmiest}, {barmier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "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