all-fired
adjEtymology
Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.
Definitions
Extreme, excessive.
- It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
Extremely, thoroughly, very.
- Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart.
- Latha dear, she said resolutely, once in your life you'll just have to quit being so all-fired superstitious.
- Sometimes I'm tired and I wonder / What's so all-fired important / About being someplace at some time
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for all-fired. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA