balmy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbɑː.mi/(UK)
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/ˈbɑː.mi/(UK) · /ˈbɑmi/(US) · /ˈbɔmi/(US) · /ˈbɑlmi/(US)
Definition of balmy
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- Producing balm.
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adj
- Producing balm.
- Soothing or fragrant.
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Of weather, mild and pleasant.
“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.”
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(US, informal)Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
“I'm going away. He's off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me.”
“'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From balm + -y. Doublet of balsamic.
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