Goofy vs Barmy - What's the difference?
goofy | barmy |
silly, quirky
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(snowboarding) riding with right foot forward.
(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]
As adjectives the difference between goofy and barmy
is that goofy is silly, quirky while barmy is (rare) containing barm, ie froth from fermented yeast or barmy can be (chiefly|british) dotty, goofy, wacko.goofy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
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Derived terms
* goofily * goofinessEtymology 2
From the way the Disney character was first depicted surfing, with right foot forward. BBC Sport,"Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* (snowboarding) regularCoordinate terms
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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.