Barmy vs Barny - What's the difference?
barmy | barny |
(rare) containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast
* Dryden
(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]
An argument, a disagreement.
* 1983 , Marilyn Porter, Home, Work, and Class Consciousness , page 78:
Barn-like.
* 2006 , W. S. Merwin, Summer Doorways: A Memoir , page 210:
As adjectives the difference between barmy and barny
is that barmy is containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast while barny is barn-like.As a noun barny is
an argument, a disagreement.barmy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- Barmy beer.
Etymology 2
Probably an alteration ofAdjective
(er)- 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, wackoDerived terms
* barmily * barminessUsage 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.Anagrams
*barny
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(barnies)- So he said she should have said, and we had a bit of a barny , like.
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- Everyone was breathing hard, and there was a barny smell in the room.
