Dictionaries › English

troppo

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɒpəʊ/

The English word “troppo” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Crazy, mad, strangely behaving; especially as attributed to hot weather.

Etymology

From tropical + -o (diminutive suffix). First used by Australian troops in tropical regions during WWII, in the sense “affected by war service in the tropics.”

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “troppo” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.