all-fired

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Very, in a great degree. A low American word.


The first thing I know'd, my trowsers were plastered all over with hot molasses, which burnt all-fired bad.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 87.

Old Haines sweating like a pitcher with ice-water in it, and looking all-fired tired.--Porter's Tales of the Southwest, p.50.

I was woked up by a noise in the street; so I jumps up in an all-fired hurry, ups with the window, and outs with my head.--Sam Slick.

You see the fact is, Squire (said the Hooshier), they had a mighty deal to say up in our parts about Orleans, and how all-fired easy it is to make money in it; but it's no ham and all hominy, I reckon.--Pickings from the Picayune, p.47.

I'm dying--I know I am! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent. The doctor will charge an all-fired price to cure me.--Knickerbocker Mag. 1845.

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