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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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
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
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
In English, Miss Cowper was throwing us into the Introduction to Poetry Unit like it was as all-fired important as the moon shot.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
I put the first edition of Jane Eyre back on the shelf, and slid all three books in carefully because I guess it was all-fired important.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
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
He’s the all-firedest bag o’ tricks I’ve ever see.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell
There ain't but one man can whip his weight in wildcats and tell the all-firedest yarns out.
From Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake by Alger, Horatio
"Yes; they'll have the all-firedest upheave there, before long, that ever tore a hole in the bottom of the sea."
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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