balmy

Etymology

balm + -y. Doublet of balsamic.

adj

  1. Producing balm.
  2. Soothing or fragrant.
  3. Of weather, mild and pleasant.
  4. (informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
    'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket. April 1 1958, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148

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