Barmy vs Crazy - What's the difference?
barmy | crazy |
(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]
Insane; lunatic; demented.
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
* , chapter=5
, title= Out of control.
Overly excited or enthusiastic.
* R. B. Kimball
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
* Macaulay
* Addison
* Jeffrey
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
As adjectives the difference between barmy and crazy
is that barmy is (rare) containing barm, ie froth from fermented yeast or barmy can be (chiefly|british) odd, strange while crazy is insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy is
(slang) very, extremely.As a noun crazy is
an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.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
*crazy
English
Adjective
(er)- Over moist and crazy brains.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
- They got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.