Lexic.us

Definition of Het up

1. Adjective. Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated'). "He was all het up and sweaty"

2. Adjective. Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement. "He was suddenly het up about racing cars"

Definition of Het up

1. Adjective. Excited or agitated; heated up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Het Up

hesperornis hesping hesps hess's law hessian hessians hessite hessites hessonite hessonites

hest hesternal hests hesychastic het up (current term) het up(p) heta hetacillin hetaera hetaerae

hetaeras hetaeric hetaerism hetaerisms hetaerist hetaerists hetaerolite hetaira hetairai

Literary usage of Het up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Was her sister shipwrecked, and did she appear after many days? For pity's sake enlighten me, for my head is 'all het up,' as Aunt ..."

2. A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known by Walter William Skeat, John Howard Nodal, William Hugh Patterson (1877)
"By the author of ' Joe and the Geologist,' ' A sup of cauld keal het up agean.' 12mo. Cocker- mouth published by E. Thwaites; no date. ..."

3. A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known by Walter William Skeat, William Edward Armytage Axon, John Howard Nodal, William Hugh Patterson (1877)
"By the author of ' Joe and the Geologist,' ' A sup of cauld keal het up agean.' 12mo. Cocker- mouth published by E. Thwaites ; no date. ..."

4. My Quarter Century of American Politics by Champ Clark (1920)
"... Sharp Williams were bosom friends—even cronies—being such familiars as to call each other by their first names; but one day Williams was all "het up" by ..."

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