balmy

Adjective

balmy (comparative balmier, superlative balmiest)

1. Producing balm.
2. Soothing or fragrant.
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.1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27
4. (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.1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 125
   • 'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.1958 April 1, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148

   Synonyms:

   barmy