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▪ I. het, ppl. a.|hɛt| [In 1, pa. pple. of heat v. (cf. lead, led, etc.); in 2, app. the same word substituted for earlier Sc. hait, hate:—OE. hát, hot. (But, possibly, shortened from hate.)] 1. pple. Heated. Also with up and transf. colloq. (orig. dial. and U.S.).
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 113 He tuk a culter hat glowand That het wes in a fyre byrnand. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Petrus 693 For þai sa Increly ware hete. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 36 The watir was hett to wassh the ffete. 1570Levins Manip. 86/17 Hette, calefactus. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 260 Don't you git het. [1886S. W. Mitchell R. Blake ii. 17, I don't het up easy.] 1893F. B. Zincke Wherstead 261 In East Anglia, an ironing-flat and a kettle of water are not heated, but ‘het’. 1894Kipling Day's Work (1898) 46 You look consider'ble het up. Guess you'd better..cool off a piece. a1898Mod. Sc. ‘Cauld kail het ower again’. 1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant v. 59 But you mustn't get yourself all ‘het up’ before you take the plunge. 1930W. de la Mare On Edge 244 You must have been overdoing it. You look quite het up. 1932C. Williams Greater Trumps x. 182 Yours is a remarkable family, Henry; you get all het up over your hobbies. 1945L. A. G. Strong Othello's Occupation ii. 43 The poor chap gets terrifically het up. 1967Listener 20 Apr. 518/3 One thing that I think endears him to the normal young intellectual, is that he can get tremendously het-up about a cause. 2. adj. Hot. Sc. and north. dial.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Bertholomeus 35 Bundyne..With het chenȝeis, as fyre brynnand. 1513Douglas æneis xii. v. 84 Of the hevy birding sa mait and het. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 15 The hetter weir oft syis the sonner peis. 1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1253 He hit the yron quhyle it was het. 1786Burns Earnest Cry xx, But gie him 't het, my hearty cocks! 1814Scott Wav. xxx, I'll put this het gad down her throat. ▪ II. het see hate n.1, heat n. and v., hight. |