fed up

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fed up

1. simple past and past participle of feed up

fed up (comparative more fed up, superlative most fed up)

1. (informal, idiomatic) Frustrated, annoyed, tired, to the limit of one's endurance.

   After two days, I am fed up with this nonsense.

   • 2022 December 28, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A war of attrition”, in RAIL, number 973, page 3:

     We are all fed up with the seemingly endless rounds of industrial action on our railways.

• This construction is most commonly followed by with, but of is also used in British English.

• fed up to the back teeth, fed up to the teeth
• fill up
• have had it
• have had it up to here
• sick and tired

fed up (third-person singular simple present feds up, present participle fedding up, simple past and past participle fedded up)

1. (slang, intransitive) To annoy; to be annoyed by something; to reach one's limits of annoyance.

   She was fedding up with the boy's hijinks.

   His behavior fed her up.