all-fired
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of all-fired
First recorded in 1825–35; probably euphemism for hell-fired
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It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters or Fair Housing Group.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, yes, I do, but ye don’t hev to be in sech a all-fired hurry. I want ye to tell me somethin’.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
I guess she thought this was pretty all-fired important.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Ten dollars to the pan'll do it, and it'd be the all-firedest stampede Alaska ever seen.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
Now," said he, "if this isn't a little the all-firedest muss a feller ever got into, Josh ain't no judge.
From Tempest and Sunshine by Holmes, Mary Jane
Bless yer, you're de all-firedest fools I eber see'd.
From The Ranger or The Fugitives of the Border by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
An old steamboat-captain once said of Elk that "it was the all-firedest river God ever made,—fer it rises at both ends and runs both ways to wunst."
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
As I brought out with emphasis the "all-firedest, biggest bug," I noticed that a frost fell on the mirth, silence reigned for a moment interrupted only by gasps from the ladies.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall
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