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BARMY (5)

barmy 

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky - a 
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" 

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in a sentence

Not another one of her barmy ideas!

The music is driving me barmy.

That's a barmy idea.

She's barmy as a bedbug.

She obviously thought he was barmy.

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etymology

1530s, "frothing, covered with barm;" see barm + -y (2). The figurative sense of "excited, flighty, bubbling with excitement" is from c. 1600. The meaning "foolish" (1892) probably is an alteration of balmy (q.v.).

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