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all-fired en · ADJ

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

Meanings

  1. (US, informal, not-comparable) Extreme, excessive.
    • It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

all-fired en · ADV

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

Meanings

  1. (US, emphatic, informal, intensifier, not-comparable) Extremely, thoroughly, very.
    • Sometimes I'm tired and I wonder / What's so all-fired important / About being someplace at some time 1972, Carole King, “Bitter with the Sweet”, in Rhymes & Reasons:
    • Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart. 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 14, in Anne of Avonlea:
    • Latha dear, she said resolutely, once in your life you'll just have to quit being so all-fired superstitious. 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug, published 2005, page 32:

Synonyms

all-firedly