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

adjective
1.
Extreme; used as an intensifier.






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"All-fired" Quotes from Famous Books



... But, one all-fired sweatin' day, It happened I was hoein' My lower corn-field, which it lay 'Longside the road that runs my way Whar ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... the poor people lived to the north of it. That's the way things often happen, Ned. An' I saw the great, big hotel John Jacob Astor was beginnin' to build on Broadway just below the City Hall. They said it would cost seven hundred thousand dollars, which is an all-fired lot of money, that it would cover mighty nigh a whole block, an' that there would be nothin' else in America ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Billy Brown who brought Mark's cutter around, holding the reins while Mark helped Helen, and then tucking the buffalo robes about her with the remark: "It's all-fired cold, Miss Ray. Shall ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes

... said the peeved farmer, "I did git outer the way for th' fire department. But what in tarnation was them drunken painters in sech an all-fired hurry fer?" ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... business as if his life depended on it. Should think they 'd git all tuckered out 'fore night, but I 'll be darned if there ain't just as many folks on the street after nightfall as afore. We 're stoppin' at the Palmer tavern; an' my chamber is up so all-fired high that I can count all your meetin'-house steeples from ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field

... onny use it Sundays, when Sarah plays the melodian and we sings hymns. Now an' then some neighbors come in evenin's, fer a quiltin'-bee in winter; and I uses it fer a minister's call, but there ain't no way to het the room an' it's all-fired ...
— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... off, eh? Now, neighbors, I've been lookin' for a place like this, and I calc'late on stayin'. I'm goin' to become all-fired ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland



Words linked to "All-fired" :   bloody, intensive, intensifier, colloquialism, immoderate



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