fed up adj.
irritated, annoyed, bored; intensified as fed up to the back teeth, fed to the teeth and (orig. milit.) fed up, fucked up and far from home.
Burnley Exp. 6 Apr. 7/2: Two-thirds were going to stay. They'd had inough; they were ‘fed up.’ Their hopes had not been realised. | ||
Dundee Courier 2 Apr. 5/3: To use his own words — a very familiar soldier's expression — he is about fed up with the attentions he has received since coming home, and would rather be let alone than lionised. | ||
Sporting Times 29 Sept. 6/8: I’m fair fed up. / There's not so many men get hit, and that's good job too, / Their rifle fire's no good at all, it misses me and you; / But when they sprinkle shells around like water from a cup, / From that there blooming pom-pom gun well, / I’m fair fed up! | ||
Naval Occasions 14: ‘Why did you desert?’ ‘I’m fed up with the Navy.’. | ‘Captain’s Defaulters’ in||
Dope 65: I’m fed up to the back teeth with this gun from the Home office! | ||
Indiscretions of Archie Ch. i: Between ourselves, I’ve never done anything much in England, and I fancy the family were getting a bit fed. | ||
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 8 Sept. 2: We are sick, sorry, and full up to the back teeth. | ||
Chicago May (1929) 141: He cooked green pills for me, and I nearly passed out. I was fed up with dope, and I have never inhaled opium in any form since. | ||
Good Companions 586: She must be fed up to the teeth with the lot of us. | ||
Cheapjack 48: I’m fed to the teeth with the game. | ||
Night and the City 203: You’re getting fed up with it? | ||
Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 269: I was fed up with the whole business. | ‘I Had to Go Sick’ in||
Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 24: I’m fed up to the back teeth with the lot of yer. The whole bleedin’ lot of yer. | ||
Death of a Barrow Boy 64: ‘You look fed,’ said Beryl [...] Yes, June acknowledged, she was fed. | ||
Junkie (1966) 134: Everyone is fed up with the way you’ve been acting lately. | ||
Syndicate (1998) 64: He was fed up with Lilly short-changing him. | ||
Teachers (1962) 192: I’m fed-up to the back teeth with all this caper. | ||
Frying-Pan 83: She was getting a bit fed-up then. | ||
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 147: I know you’re fed up to the back teeth. | ||
Spike Island (1981) 416: They must’ve got a bit fed up like with her comin’ in the bridewell, so they posted her again. | ||
Helsingør Station and Other Departures 152: ‘How am I?’ he said. ‘Absolutely bloody well fed up to the back teeth.’. | ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in||
Hip-Hop Connection Dec. 21: After this tour being cancelled people are probably getting fed up with us. | ||
Salesman 249: Fed up to the back teeth reading articles about how the Great sodding Famine still important in Irish psyche. | ||
Big Ask 229: ‘I’d been hauling that psychotic bastard out of scraps for years.’ [...] ‘Until one day you got fed up, eh?’. |
In derivatives
depression, boredom, frustration.
Nothing of Importance (1988) 225: But it [i.e. a book] leaves out bits [...] the utter fed-upness, and the dullness. | ||
Adventure in Algeria 67: I went into town suffering from a bad attack of cafard, which in the Legion means an acute degree of fed-upness. | ||
Far To Go 67: [T]his realisation is too much for the recruit to assimilate all at once, and he acquires a feeling of acute ‘fedupness’ [...] which at times borders on dementia. |