English Explanatory Dictionary

het up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of heat up
adj
  1. Excited, agitated or frantic.
verb
  1. dialectal form of heat up

Word forms

het up heat up heated up heaten up hetted up more het up most het up hets up hetting up

Etymology

Irregular form of heat up. The adjective was originally a metaphorical use of the past participle het up (“heated up”), perhaps as a reference to agitation caused by fever or the churn of boiling water, but has since lexicalised as a fossil in standard English.

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