balmy

Definition

Producing balm.

Etymology

From balm + -y. Doublet of balsamic.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."