all-fired, a. and adv. slang.
(ˈɔːl-ˌfaɪəd)
[said to be euphemism for hell-fired.]
Infernal; hence an intensive. (Chiefly in U.S.) Hence as adv.
| 1837 Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 115 What an all fired scrape he got into. 1837 Yale Lit. Mag. II. 149 Star's an all-fired good ox. 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford III. vii. 130, I knows I be so all-fired jealous, I can't abear to hear o' her talkin', let alone writin' to ―. 1862 ― in Macm. Mag. V. 244/1 [Berksh. peasant says] A went off wi' th' most all-fired noise. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer x. 96 Tell him to get all-fired busy on it. |