het up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.14 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of heat up
Example Sentences
- "Try to keep your cool and not get het up."
- ""I reckon," he said, directing his remarks toward no one in particular, "that we've all been rather hasty in this matter, being het up as we were with the strain of what we been through an' so it seems to me, […]"
- "‘What ever happened ashore to get that cold old turtle so het up?’ he demanded."
- "We must do an end run around these people, not make the mistake of thinking they are just “het up” or have wended a few yards into a wrong turn."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
heat up (alternative)
heated up (alternative)
heaten up (alternative)
hetted up (alternative)
more het up (comparative)
most het up (superlative)
hets up (present, singular)
hetting up (participle, present)
hetted up (participle, past)
hetted up (past)