het up

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“He didn't ever tell nobody about how he could get things het up and flaming.”

Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him
“So, when Clark came back from that, he was really het up about the South and there was another fellow in there named Jerome Frank who was a brilliant man, he got to be”

Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
“If those one-worlders in Geneva are so het up about standardization, why don’t they adopt the American system?”

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“But me own eyes -' 'Don't git het up over it,' admonished Bettles, as the quick Celtic anger began to mount.”

The Men of Forty Mile
“One time, after they left a village so het up against Whites they were looking with interest at Alvin's own scalp, Alvin got to feeling defiant and he said, "Why don't you have me tell them about how you and I and Taleswapper all got into Eight-Face Mound?”

Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him
“Armor-of-God says Harrison's telling lies, to try to get people het up against the Reds.”

Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him
“An’ your head’ll be all het up an’ feel as dry as burnt pork.”

The Red Badge of Courage

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yarb Irate, agitated. E.g. "I was going to ask Dad to lend me a tenner, but he was all het up after losing the football so I thought I'd better leave it till later." Nov 8, 2007

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