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All-fired   /ɔl-fˈaɪərd/   Listen
All-fired

adjective
1.
Extreme; used as an intensifier.
adverb
1.
Extremely.  Synonyms: bloody, damn.  "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"






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"All-fired" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Blast the all-fired old torch!" said John, wrestling with the lamp-flue, and turning on a welcome flame at last. "Well, you said 'Mack!' Why don't you go on? And don't bawl at the top of your lungs, either. You've already succeeded in waking every boarder ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley

... set up thet draw," said Hiram Bent, as he pointed toward an intersecting canyon. "Just before I waked you I was comin' along here, an' I heered an all-fired racket up thar, an' so I watched. Soon three black bears come paddlin' down, an' the biggest was draggin' the trap with the chain an' log. Then I hurried to tell you. They can't ...
— The Young Forester • Zane Grey

... did you kill them?" he asked, "you didn't kill all them to-day, I guess! One, two, three—why, there's twenty-seven cock, and forty-nine quail! By gin! here's another; just fifty quail, three partridge, and six rabbits; well that's a most all-fired nice mess, I swon; if you killed them today you done right well, I tell you—you won't get no such mess of birds here now—but you was two days killing these, ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... attract rustlers, so we may live in peace if we give up our rights. On the other hand, suppose Dad gets the Navajos down here and we join them and go after Holderness and his gang. There's going to be an all-fired bloody fight. Of course we'd wipe out the rustlers, but some of us would get killed—and there are the wives ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey

... an all-fired big rip here," declared Jack, as he viewed his trousers. "Anyone got a needle and thread ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman


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