worked-up

comparative more worked-up · superlative most worked-up

1. alternativeAlternative form of worked up, usually attributive.

   Andrew Gibbons knew that the U.S. mail party was to be in the area, and they were the probable group that the Indians were worked-up about.

   1995 November 26, Bart Anderson, “Mormon patrols kept California trail safe”, in The Sunday Spectrum, St. George, Ut., →OCLC, page C7, column 1

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   The big Kahunas at Rec and Park were taken behind the chlorine shed the other night by a worked-up school of fish. A crowd of angry swimmers—folks from 8 to 86 who use San Francisco’s nine public pools—overflowed a large auditorium at the Hall of Flowers Tuesday night to vent their frustration on Recreation and Park executives who’ve gutted The City’s aquatics program 50 percent in the last four years.

   1993 August 19, Bill Mandel, “Rec and Park forced into the swim”, in San Francisco Examiner, 129th year, number 59, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-4, column 1

   In my worked-up state, I believed that a thermometer would dignify the sorry house I inherited, would endow it, however superficially, with a civilized bearing.

   1999, John Vernon, “Heat”, in A Book of Reasons, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 17