balmy

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From balm +‎ -y. Doublet of balsamic.

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balmy (comparative balmier, superlative balmiest)

  1. Producing balm.
  2. Soothing or fragrant.
  3. Of weather, mild and pleasant.
    • 1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE[1], volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:
      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.
  4. (informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
    Synonym: (UK) barmy

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