all-fired

adj

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

Definitions

  1. Extreme, excessive.

    • It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
  2. 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