See barmy on Wiktionary
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"text": "Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, / My barmie noddle's working prime, […]",
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"text": "I thanked John [Bishop], said the \"oracle award\" sounds like a made-up prize you'd give a fat kid on sports day – I should know, I used to get them – then that it's barmy that Hugo Boss can trade under the same name they flogged uniforms to the Nazis under and the ludicrous necessity for an event such as this one to banish such a lurid piece of information from our collective consciousness.",
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"ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto:",
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"text": "Their jovial Nights, in frollicks and in play / They paſs, to drive the tedious Hours avvay. / And their cold Stomachs vvith crovvn'd Goblets cheer, / Of vvindy Cider, and of barmy Beer.",
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"ref": "1786, Robert Burns, “To J. S****”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 70:",
"text": "Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, / My barmie noddle's working prime, […]",
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"text": "\"Bli'me if I know wot yer all talkin' abaht. You're all barmy on the crumpet,\" said Liza indignantly, and, turning her back on them, made for home.",
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"ref": "2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: ‘It’s amazing how absurd it seems’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:",
"text": "I thanked John [Bishop], said the \"oracle award\" sounds like a made-up prize you'd give a fat kid on sports day – I should know, I used to get them – then that it's barmy that Hugo Boss can trade under the same name they flogged uniforms to the Nazis under and the ludicrous necessity for an event such as this one to banish such a lurid piece of information from our collective consciousness.",
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