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Bammy vs Barmy - What's the difference?

bammy | barmy |

As adjectives the difference between bammy and barmy

is that bammy is crazy while barmy is containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast.

As a noun bammy

is jamaican cassava flatbread.

bammy

English

Etymology 1

Apparently a dialectal form of barmy.

Adjective

(er)
  • (Scotland, slang) Crazy.
  • * 1992 , James Kelman, "Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low", Some Recent Attacks , p. 86:
    • Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy , crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.
  • * 2009 , Frankie Boyle, My Shit Life So Far , HarperCollins 2010, p. 183:
    • He was quite a bammy Glasgow guy who had hit on the idea of playing a Tolkienesque character who could turn things to mud with his magical finger.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (bammies)
  • Jamaican cassava flatbread.
    • ----

    barmy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (rare) containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast
  • * Dryden
    • Barmy beer.

    Etymology 2

    Probably an alteration of

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (chiefly, British) odd, strange.
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • I thanked John, said the "oracle award" sounds like a made-up prize you'd give a fat kid on sports day – I should know, I used to get them – then that it's barmy that Hugo Boss can trade under the same name they flogged uniforms to the Nazis under and the ludicrous necessity for an event such as this one to banish such a lurid piece of information from our collective consciousness.
    Synonyms
    * dotty, goofy, wacko
    Derived terms
    * barmily * barminess

    Usage notes

    * in US English, balmy is usual for sense (2); elsewhere this is occasionally found but some authorities consider it erroneous, despite its probable etymology.

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