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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/

Definition 1:
• 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").
Labels: also, archaic, figuratively

Definition 2:
• Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: balmy, dotty, goofy, wacko, aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, barmy, bizarre, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, excentrical, extraordinary, far-out, freakish, heteroclite, idiocentric, idiosyncratic, irregular, kookish, kooky, nutbar, odd, oddballish, off-centre, outlandish, outré, peculiar, pixilated, queer, quirky, quizzy, spacy, squirrelly, uncommon, wacky, weird, whimsical, whimsome, wifty, Wodehousian, Wonkaesque, 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, fey, buggish, buggy, bughouse, batchy, batpoop, bats, batty, bonkers, bread baskets, cracked, crackers, cra-cra, 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, deranged, distraught, disturbed, doolally, fruit loops, gaga, hatstand, harebrained, insane, loon, loco, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, nerts, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut job, nutballs, nut, nuts, nutso, nutty, nutter, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, sicko, screwy, starkers, tonto, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, whackjob, whacko, whacky, wode, yampy, zany, apeshit, batcrap, batshit, bat-s***, fucked in the head, fucked up, ripshit
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, par, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday, sane, balanced, compos mentis, in one's right mind, in possession of one's faculties, lucid, rational, reasonable, sound-minded
Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, informal

Definition 3:
• Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.
Labels: archaic, figuratively

Definition 4:
• Very foolish.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: balmy, asinine, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, fatuous, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, goofy, idiotic, idle, insipient, mookish, naive, silly, simple, slight, slow-witted, softheaded, soft in the head, sottish, stupid, thick, unsage, unwise, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, crackpot, dense
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: astute, clairvoyant, deep, frood, grounded, judicious, oracular, perspicacious, politic, profound, prudent, quick-witted, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, wise, witful
Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, informal
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi/

Definition 1:
• plural of barma ("a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems")
Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, form-of, informal, plural

Definition 2:
• bar mitzvah
Labels: Ireland, UK, archaic, informal

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barmy