het up

短语

a. 兴奋的, 过度紧张的

词形变化

hets up 三单 hetting up 现在分词 hetted up 过去式 hetted up 过去分词 more het up 比较级 most het up 最高级

别名

heat up heated up heaten up hetted up

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    simple past and past participle of heat up

    方言
  2. 1.

    dialectal form of heat up

    方言
adj.
  1. 1.

    Excited, agitated or frantic.

    非正式

    Try to keep your cool and not get het up.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

heated het

近义相关 2

hot emotional

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary