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Barmy. World English Historical Dictionary

Barmy. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Barmy a. [f. BARM sb.2 + -Y1.]

1   1.  Of, full of, or covered with barm; frothing.

2 1535.  Lyndesay, Sat. Three Estates. Gud barmie aill.

3 1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. That puft-up lump of barmy froth.

4 c. 1817.  Hogg, Tales, II. 256. Like barmy beer in corked bottles.

5   2.  fig. Full of ferment, excitedly active, flighty.

6 1602.  Ret. fr. Parnass., I. ii. (Arb.), 9. Such barmy heads wil alwaies be working.

7 a. 1605.  Montgomerie, Poems (1821), 49. Hope puts that hast into ȝour heid, Quhilk boyl’s ȝour barmy brain.

8 1785.  Burns, Wks., III. 85. Just now I’ve taen the fit o’ rhyme, My barmie noddle’s working prime.

9   3.  Comb. barmy-brained a., flighty; barmy-froth, (fig.) a flighty, empty-headed fellow.

10 1599.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, 166. Each odde puisne of the Lawyers Inne, Each barmy-froth, that last day did beginne To read his little.

11 1824.  Scott, St. Ronan’s, xxxii. Cork-headed barmy-brained gowks!

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