i Register
In some senses, balmy is marked as informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Producing balm.
Soothing or fragrant.
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.
Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
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.