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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, or tired, to the limit of one's endurance, especially by something that one has experienced for too long. [with with or (British English) of]

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

   I am fed up watching football on TV.

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 49:

     In 1829, many Americans became aware of Canada for the first time when thousands of Canadians, fed up with the cold, snow and polar bears, immigrated to the south, most of them settling in the still-untamed American West.

   • 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.

• 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.