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Het up

adjective
1.
Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated').  Synonyms: heated, heated up, het.  "Wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana" , "He was all het up and sweaty"
2.
Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement.  "Got really het up over the new taxes" , "He was suddenly het up about racing cars"





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"Het up" Quotes from Famous Books



... all Lucius says, he despises the whole lot of 'em. Still, that ain't goin' to help him any if Jim Banks er one of them other idiots gits all het up an' jealous an' goes and sues fer a divorce, namin' Lucius ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... a spell of turrible hot wether in Beulah. How is it with you? I never framed it up jest what kind of a job an American Counsul's was; but I guess he aint never het up with overwork! There was a piece in a Portland paper about a Counsul somewhere being fired because he set in his shirt-sleeves durin office hours. I says to Col. Wheeler if Uncle Sam could keep em all in their shirtsleeves, ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "you cert'nly are some on the talk, for sure! Your folks sorta handed you the tongue for the family when you butted into this here world, didn't they? An' so that's your grandpa? I come pretty near hurtin' him an' you're some het up over it? But I reckon that if he has to set around an' listen to your palaver he'd be right glad to cash in. Shucks. I beg your pardon, ma'am. If it'll do you any good to know, I thought your poor grandpap was some ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... whole time workin' up weddin's! Seems like they was some kind of contagious disease in this family. James was married only last December, an' even if we wasn't to that, we got all het up over it just the same. An' now we've hardly got our breath since Sally's, an' Austin's is starin' us in the face! I couldn't see my way clear to house-cleanin' this whole great ark in dog-days for nobody, an' Edith an' Peter's got to leave the very day after Sylvia 'n Austin get married. Peter ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes


Words linked to "Het up" :   heated up, hot, het, emotional, colloquialism, heated


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