het up

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het up^¹

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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.

verb heat up · heated up · heaten up · hetted up

dialectal, participle, past simple past and past participle of heat up

adjective more het up · most het up · heat up · heated up · heaten up · hetted up

colloquial Excited, agitated or frantic. Try to keep your cool and not get het up.

het up^²

verb hets up · hetting up · hetted up · het up

dialectal dialectal form of heat up

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@misc{het_up_2026,
  title = {het up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/het%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}