gen up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To study in detail; to familiarize oneself with all available information.
British usage; Informal; Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "I find the doctors are very surprised when they realise I'm genned up about my condition."
- "So the heroic infant was able to gen up on all she needed to know about the making of bathtub gin by consulting a selection of large and impressive volumes in the reference section."
- "With a new EO to train and supervise, his workload was bound to increase, so he put in for overtime and spent his Sundays in the office, alone and undisturbed, so he could gen up on League Cup winners and current affairs."
- "Unless you are better genned up than Einstein was, the class will seeth with the rumour that you are not his equal, and you and your pions will be quickly discounted."
- "In any case, I need to be genned up for this research."
- "It was also new to be listening to talk of bribery and corruption in high places, and Michael Murray saw it as his duty to gen me up on this."
Etymology
From gen, meaning information.