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English
Etymology
From balm + -y. Doublet of balsamic.
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Adjective
balmy (comparative balmier, superlative balmiest)
- Producing balm.
- Soothing or fragrant.
- Of weather, mild and pleasant.
1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California.
- (informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
- Synonym: (UK) barmy
1912 (date written), Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 125:I'm going away. He's off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me.
1958 April 1, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148:'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.
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