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Barky vs Barmy - What's the difference?

barky | barmy |

As adjectives the difference between barky and barmy

is that barky is (of a tree) having bark while barmy is (rare) containing barm, ie froth from fermented yeast or barmy can be (chiefly|british) odd, strange.

barky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of a tree) Having bark.
    • This drink has a barky taste.
    It was a very barky tree.
  • Prone to bark, to make the sound of a dog.
    • A barky dog.
  • Sounding like the bark of a dog.
    • She has a barky cough.

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    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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