troppoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒpəʊ/

形容詞

troppo (not comparable)

1. (Australia, slang, with go) Crazy, mad, strangely behaving; especially as attributed to hot weather.

   Barry′s gone troppo and married that sheila he′s only known for two weeks.

   After three months by himself on his ‘dream’ tropical island he went troppo and smashed all the equipment.

   • 1989, Rosie Boycott, All for Love, page 163,

     ‘ […] She calls these rehearsals my singing lessons - but at least I don′t have people rushing in thinking I′ve gone troppo . . .’

     ‘Except me.’ Violet′s smile lingered as she gazed at him.

   • 2009, Paul Tapp, Disquiet - the Justifiable Homicide of an Australian Vietnam Veteran, page 121,

     For a lone Digger gone troppo, as Joe is deemed to have done, it is a realistic scenario.

   • 2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1]:

     "[The Northern Territory has] got the same sort of flavour to it, probably a bit more frontier. Overall, it's the tropics and they go troppo. The beer's cold and the weather's hot and they drink too much.

使用する際の注意点

Used in the verb go troppo — to go crazy, to act strangely, as due to tropical heat.

同意語

• bonkers
• doolally, from doolally tap

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