Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Too much or too many; excessive or superfluous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, too much; hence, in the way; not wanted: applied to a person whose presence is inconvenient: as, he saw he was de trop, and therefore retired.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
excessive orsuperfluous
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French : de, of, in + trop, excess.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From French de ("of") + trop ("too much")
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word de trop.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
john commented on the word de trop
"Last year I was in the Provence region of France, and while I wrote about hiking across the Petit Luberon massif, I claimed that I’d cried off climbing the premier peak in the vicinity — the 1,914-meter (6,279.5 feet) Mont Ventoux — because to do so would be de trop."
The New York Times, Garment District, by Will Self, August 26, 2008
August 28, 2008
Ennui312 commented on the word de trop
From the book Magician's Land: "I was going to say, 'Consider yourself annexed, bitch!' or something like that, but sometimes an exit line just feels de trop, you know?"
Last page of chapter 12. No page numbers in the ebook, only a percentage - 40% complete.
September 24, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word de trop
"You're a rose,
You're Inferno's Dante,
You're the nose
On the great Durante.
I'm just in the way,
As the French would say, "de trop".
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!"
--from "You're the Top!" by Cole Porter
September 24, 2014