fed up

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Verb

fed up

1. simple past and past participle of feed up

Etymology 2

Adjective

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

1. (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.

Usage notes

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

Translations

frustrated

• Azerbaijani: bezmiş, usanmış, tox (az)
• Belarusian: надаку́чыла (nadakúčyla) (verb, past tense), сы́ты па го́рла (sýty pa hórla)
• Burmese: ငြီးငွေ့ (my) (ngri:ngwe.)
• Catalan: fart (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭倦／厌倦 (zh) (yànjuàn), 膩／腻 (zh) (nì)

• Czech: mít plné zuby (cs)
• Danish: træt (da), (strong) dødtræt
• Dutch: beu (nl)
• Esperanto: tedita
• Finnish: tympääntynyt (fi), lopen kyllästynyt, kurkkua myöten täynnä, väsynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi), ärsyyntynyt (fi)
• French: en avoir marre (fr) (be fed up), tanné (fr), avoir son voyage (fr) (Quebec)
• Galician: farto, canso, cheo
• German: (e.g. es satt haben) satt (de), die Nase voll haben (de) (to be fed up)
• Greek: μπουχτισμένος (el) (bouchtisménos)
• Hebrew: נִמְאַס (nim'ás)
• Hungarian: elege van (hu), tele van a hócipője, torkig van
• Indonesian: lelah (id)
• Irish: bréan de, múisiamach
• Italian: essere stufo
• Japanese: うんざり (ja) (unzari), 飽き飽きする (akiaki suru)
• Kapampangan: pagal, sora
• Khmer: ធុញទ្រាន់ (thuñtrŏən)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێزار (bêzar), ھیلاک (ckb) (hîlak)

• Luxembourgish: sat
• Maori: kawakawa, hokehokeā, hongehongeā, pāngū, hōhā
• Polish: mieć dość (pl), przejadać się impf, przejeść się pf
• Portuguese: farto (pt), cheio (pt)
• Romanian: sătul (ro)
• Russian: сы́тый по го́рло (sýtyj po górlo, literally “fed up to the throat”), (verb, past tense) надое́ло (ru) (nadojélo) (see надое́сть (nadojéstʹ))
• Slovene: naveličan
• Spanish: harto (es), cansado (es), hastiado (es), cabreado (es), chorreado (es)
• Swedish: less (sv)
• Tagalog: pagod, sawa, puno (tl), konsumido
• Telugu: విసుగెత్తిపోవు (visugettipōvu)
• Turkish: bıkkın (tr), bıkmış (tr)
• Tày: bứa, nga̱u, bứa nga̱u
• Ukrainian: набри́дло (nabrýdlo) (verb, past tense), си́тий по го́рло (sýtyj po hórlo)
• Vietnamese: chán (vi)
• Walloon: end awè s' sô (wa)
• Welsh: wedi hen flino, wedi hen alaru, cael llond bol (to be fed up)

See also

• 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

Verb

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.