Definitions for barmy

barmy barm·y

Spelling: [bahr-mee]
IPA: /ˈbɑr mi/

Barmy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in barmy (abmry).

Definitions for barmy

adjective

  1. containing or resembling barm; frothy.
  2. British Slang. balmy (def 4).

Origin of barmy

1525-35; barm + -y1; def. 2 probably respelling of balmy by r-less speaker

Examples for barmy

None of them except barmy Sid once visited his rooms; nor did he find it at all easy to strike up even a staircase acquaintance.

Well, then, hall Hi can say his hit sounds like barmy Yankee nonsense to me.

A man shall not be choak't With the stench of garlic, nor be pasted To the barmy jacket of a beer-brewer.

"If you ask me, I think the blighter is barmy," asserted the Briton.

Word Value for barmy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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