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Definition of barmy in English: barmyadjectivebarmier, barmiest ˈbɑːmiˈbɑrmi British informal 1Mad; crazy. 精神失常的;发疯的,疯狂的 I thought I was going barmy at first 最初我以为我要发疯了。 Example sentencesExamples - A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument.
- What's more, the speed limits in this country are barmy.
- Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
- My wife thinks I am a bit barmy.
- Hardly a week goes by without another barmy example of political correctness being imposed by our town halls.
- The clock would drive most of us barmy.
- As he was led away to the cells, Palmer swore and shouted: ‘What a waste of taxpayers' money - it's barmy.’
- This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
- Whatever else he may be, Leishman is certainly an extrovert, and the barmy bard would turn up on Saint and Greavsie delivering slices of his home-cooked poetry.
- A colleague called it "bureaucracy gone barmy."
- The result was an utterly mad, mostly utterly barmy, rush of a half hour.
- This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
- Those are the blokes so barmy, so psycho, they got turned down by their own national armies.
- A new report reveals we are forking out fortunes to bankroll bureaucrats with barmy "non-job" titles.
- Do we really pay people to come to such barmy decisions?
- He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
- Everywhere we turn there is fresh evidence that the country has gone completely barmy on the price front.
- We must be barmy to let this happen.
- He is often regarded in the West as a bumbling eccentric, renowned for issuing barmy decrees.
- There is the absolutely barmy Professor Cuthbert Calculus, who designs the rocket to the moon.
- In the beginning, even Scotland's leading folk musicians thought Celtic Connections was a barmy idea.
- Actually, we thought he was a lunatic - quite literally: he went barmy when the moon was full.
- Perhaps you should have little fiddly problems with a new property, but it should not be as barmy as this.
- If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
- It was quiet, no barmy celebrations, with stunned supporters still coming to terms with what they had seen.
- I am struggling to remember a more barmy example of passing the buck.
- There are people who'd think you were barmy.
- In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
- Feeling hungry having not eaten since breakfast, we had a Chinese meal for tea and watched Second Hand Lions which is a fantastic film about a boy growing up with his two barmy uncles.
- Anyone barmy enough to join Morris in jumping out of a plane can get in touch with him about next year's trip to France.
- But the president-for-life is as sinister as he is barmy.
- But the over-protective hothouse mentality is barmy.
- They'd think Daddy quite barmy, and they'd be right.
- This means their actions are likely to get more desperate, their logic more twisted, their conspiracy theories more barmy and their rhetoric more rabid.
- I whittled away in my bedroom - I used to drive the cleaners barmy, with shavings around the room.
- Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
- Asking the locals something apparently obvious with a Scottish accent just makes them think I'm barmy.
- Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive.
- On his own return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Hague said: ‘I must be mad, actually, I am obviously barmy.’
- That someone who is getting assaulted by their partner is prepared to put up with that because if they leave, the pet will receive the same treatment is slightly barmy, but understandable.
- 1.1 Extremely foolish.
〈非正式,主英〉傻呵呵的,痴呆的,愚蠢透顶的 这是个愚蠢透顶的决定。 Example sentencesExamples - Those are the blokes so barmy, so psycho, they got turned down by their own national armies.
- Actually, we thought he was a lunatic - quite literally: he went barmy when the moon was full.
- This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
- Do we really pay people to come to such barmy decisions?
- This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
- Whatever else he may be, Leishman is certainly an extrovert, and the barmy bard would turn up on Saint and Greavsie delivering slices of his home-cooked poetry.
- As he was led away to the cells, Palmer swore and shouted: ‘What a waste of taxpayers' money - it's barmy.’
- Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive.
- Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
- This means their actions are likely to get more desperate, their logic more twisted, their conspiracy theories more barmy and their rhetoric more rabid.
- That someone who is getting assaulted by their partner is prepared to put up with that because if they leave, the pet will receive the same treatment is slightly barmy, but understandable.
- Feeling hungry having not eaten since breakfast, we had a Chinese meal for tea and watched Second Hand Lions which is a fantastic film about a boy growing up with his two barmy uncles.
- On his own return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Hague said: ‘I must be mad, actually, I am obviously barmy.’
- If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
- Perhaps you should have little fiddly problems with a new property, but it should not be as barmy as this.
- Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
- They'd think Daddy quite barmy, and they'd be right.
- But the over-protective hothouse mentality is barmy.
- In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
- He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
Synonyms stupid, silly, idiotic, half-witted, witless, brainless, mindless, thoughtless, imprudent, incautious, irresponsible, injudicious, indiscreet, unwise, unintelligent, unreasonable foolish, stupid, silly, idiotic, half-witted, witless, brainless, mindless, thoughtless, imprudent, incautious, irresponsible, injudicious, indiscreet, unwise, unintelligent, unreasonable
Derivativesadverb British informal I'm a total sucker for inspired silliness and non-stop, groan-worthy double entendres and barmily burgeoning plots. Example sentencesExamples - No-one in Hollywood would have dreamed up anything so absurd, yet barmily delightful.
- From the barmily romantic ‘Just Like Fred Astaire’ to the anthemic ‘We're Going To Miss You ’, this is indulgent, swaggering and even survives Sinead O'Connor on ‘Vervaceous’.
- The CRS, in even more barmily chic outfits, were getting pelted with rocks.
- These are Tory Trotskyites who are quite happy that things should get worse, because they barmily think they will then get better.
noun British informal This kind of artful barminess takes skill and showmanship - something she has in abundance, along with knives, guns, deep-seated conservative attitudes and the most diseased brain since Krang. Example sentencesExamples - What comes across most powerfully in this sumptuous work is the wonder, variety and sheer barminess of mankind's perennially fruitless quest for a truly ideal home.
- However peculiarity is a characteristic of all things Royal, not to say outright barminess.
- Sadly these are hard times, we must panic; otherwise David Blunkett's barminess will have been for naught!
- It is putting up 26 candidates and, apart from a moderately sensible policy querying the wisdom of allowing the current system of postal voting to continue, it's pure barminess all the way.
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense 'frothy'): from barm + -y1. Rhymesarmy, balmy, gourami, macramé, origami, palmy, pastrami, salami, smarmy, swami, tsunami, Yanomami Definition of barmy in US English: barmyadjectiveˈbärmēˈbɑrmi British informal 1Mad; crazy. 精神失常的;发疯的,疯狂的 I thought I was going barmy at first 最初我以为我要发疯了。 Example sentencesExamples - It was quiet, no barmy celebrations, with stunned supporters still coming to terms with what they had seen.
- Asking the locals something apparently obvious with a Scottish accent just makes them think I'm barmy.
- The clock would drive most of us barmy.
- This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
- There is the absolutely barmy Professor Cuthbert Calculus, who designs the rocket to the moon.
- On his own return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Hague said: ‘I must be mad, actually, I am obviously barmy.’
- Feeling hungry having not eaten since breakfast, we had a Chinese meal for tea and watched Second Hand Lions which is a fantastic film about a boy growing up with his two barmy uncles.
- Anyone barmy enough to join Morris in jumping out of a plane can get in touch with him about next year's trip to France.
- That someone who is getting assaulted by their partner is prepared to put up with that because if they leave, the pet will receive the same treatment is slightly barmy, but understandable.
- The result was an utterly mad, mostly utterly barmy, rush of a half hour.
- Those are the blokes so barmy, so psycho, they got turned down by their own national armies.
- There are people who'd think you were barmy.
- I whittled away in my bedroom - I used to drive the cleaners barmy, with shavings around the room.
- In the beginning, even Scotland's leading folk musicians thought Celtic Connections was a barmy idea.
- But the over-protective hothouse mentality is barmy.
- What's more, the speed limits in this country are barmy.
- Actually, we thought he was a lunatic - quite literally: he went barmy when the moon was full.
- They'd think Daddy quite barmy, and they'd be right.
- A colleague called it "bureaucracy gone barmy."
- If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
- My wife thinks I am a bit barmy.
- As he was led away to the cells, Palmer swore and shouted: ‘What a waste of taxpayers' money - it's barmy.’
- Everywhere we turn there is fresh evidence that the country has gone completely barmy on the price front.
- This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
- Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
- He is often regarded in the West as a bumbling eccentric, renowned for issuing barmy decrees.
- A new report reveals we are forking out fortunes to bankroll bureaucrats with barmy "non-job" titles.
- Do we really pay people to come to such barmy decisions?
- A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument.
- Perhaps you should have little fiddly problems with a new property, but it should not be as barmy as this.
- Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
- He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
- This means their actions are likely to get more desperate, their logic more twisted, their conspiracy theories more barmy and their rhetoric more rabid.
- Whatever else he may be, Leishman is certainly an extrovert, and the barmy bard would turn up on Saint and Greavsie delivering slices of his home-cooked poetry.
- We must be barmy to let this happen.
- But the president-for-life is as sinister as he is barmy.
- Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive.
- In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
- Hardly a week goes by without another barmy example of political correctness being imposed by our town halls.
- I am struggling to remember a more barmy example of passing the buck.
- 1.1 Extremely foolish.
〈非正式,主英〉傻呵呵的,痴呆的,愚蠢透顶的 这是个愚蠢透顶的决定。 Example sentencesExamples - Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
- That someone who is getting assaulted by their partner is prepared to put up with that because if they leave, the pet will receive the same treatment is slightly barmy, but understandable.
- Perhaps you should have little fiddly problems with a new property, but it should not be as barmy as this.
- They'd think Daddy quite barmy, and they'd be right.
- Whatever else he may be, Leishman is certainly an extrovert, and the barmy bard would turn up on Saint and Greavsie delivering slices of his home-cooked poetry.
- Do we really pay people to come to such barmy decisions?
- As he was led away to the cells, Palmer swore and shouted: ‘What a waste of taxpayers' money - it's barmy.’
- Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive.
- Actually, we thought he was a lunatic - quite literally: he went barmy when the moon was full.
- This means their actions are likely to get more desperate, their logic more twisted, their conspiracy theories more barmy and their rhetoric more rabid.
- This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
- Those are the blokes so barmy, so psycho, they got turned down by their own national armies.
- If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
- Feeling hungry having not eaten since breakfast, we had a Chinese meal for tea and watched Second Hand Lions which is a fantastic film about a boy growing up with his two barmy uncles.
- He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
- Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
- But the over-protective hothouse mentality is barmy.
- On his own return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Hague said: ‘I must be mad, actually, I am obviously barmy.’
- This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
- In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
Synonyms stupid, silly, idiotic, half-witted, witless, brainless, mindless, thoughtless, imprudent, incautious, irresponsible, injudicious, indiscreet, unwise, unintelligent, unreasonable foolish, stupid, silly, idiotic, half-witted, witless, brainless, mindless, thoughtless, imprudent, incautious, irresponsible, injudicious, indiscreet, unwise, unintelligent, unreasonable
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense ‘frothy’): from barm + -y. |