balmy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Producing balm.

2. 2

   Soothing or fragrant.

3. 3

   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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   1. 4

      Foolish

      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.

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