all-fired

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all-fired

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Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.

adjective

  1. US, informal, not comparable Extreme, excessive. It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.

adverb

  1. US, emphatic, informal, intensifier, not comparable Extremely, thoroughly, very. Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart.

    Similar: all-firedly

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"all-fired." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/all-fired. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"all-fired." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/all-fired.

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@misc{all_fired_2026,
  title = {all-fired},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/all-fired},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}