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all-fired

all-fired adjective: extreme, excessive.

Adjective

all-fired (not comparable)

  1. (US, informal) Extreme, excessive.
    • It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Adverb

all-fired (not comparable)

  1. (US, emphatic, informal, intensifier) Extremely, thoroughly, very.
    • Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart.1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 14, in Anne of Avonlea
    • Latha dear, she said resolutely, once in your life you'll just have to quit being so all-fired superstitious.1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug, published 2005, page 32
    Synonyms:
    all-firedly

Synonyms of all-fired

Origin of all-fired

Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

Questions about all-fired

What does all-fired mean?
All-fired means extreme, excessive.
What part of speech is all-fired?
All-fired can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near all-fired in the dictionary

  1. All-Fathers
  2. all-female
  3. all-figure number
  4. all-figure numbers
  5. all-fire
  6. all-fired
  7. all-firedly
  8. all-fours
  9. all-gender
  10. all-girls
  11. all-good

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