Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) extremely, very much so, excessively.

1833		A. Greene Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth II 176: He was seldom downright drunk; but was often [...] all-firedly sprung.
1833		Albany Microscope (NY) 1 June n.p.: ‘She’s an all-fired handosme gal, that’.
1844		J.C. Neal Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities 177: Ho! ho! lazyboots! [...] t’ain’t good for your wholesome to be so all-fired industrious!
1850		W.K. Northall Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 108: Oh, she was an all fired nice gal, tew.
1860		A.D. Milne Uncle Sam’s Farm Fence 8: Wonder if it is rum make potatoes rot so all-firedly .
1861		T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford (1880) 446: I knows I be so all-fired jealous; I can’t abear to hear o’ her talkin’, let alone writin’ to —.
1871		E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master (1892) 240: Welch’s whisky was all-fired mean.
1883		G.W. Peck Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 122: Say, you are getting too alfired smart.
1896		P.L. Dunbar ‘A Confidence’ in Lyrics of Lowly Life 173: Uncle John, he makes me tired; / Thinks ’at he’s jest so all-fired / Smart.
1899		J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps 331: I got all-fired sleepy.
1907		C. M’Govern By Bolo and Krag 175: Then why [...] do the fellows in the —teenth get so all-fired sore when anyone happens to mention anything about the fighting qualities of the carabao.
1907		D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ From First To Last (1954) 14: He suddenly gets all-fired peremptory.
1910		B.L. Bowen ‘Word-List From Western New York’ in DN III:vi 436: all fired, adv. Extremely; infernally. ‘It’s all-fired hot in this room.’.
1913		J. London Valley of the Moon (1914) 118: Bill, you got such an all-fired pretty wife.
1918		‘Wally’ Wallgren [comic strip] What made Sergeant Stripes so all fired sore on the ‘Fritzies’.
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 53: You don’t suppose it’s any novelty to me to find that we hustlers, that think we’re so all-fired successful, aren’t getting much out of it?
1923		H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 46: If Drew City was really so all-fired proud of me, why didn’t they give me a chance to make suthin’ out of myself.
1927		C. Sandburg ‘Si Hubbard’ in Amer. Songbag 351: He pulled Si’s whiskers so all-fired hard.
1935		J. Conroy World to Win 233: The little snot thinks he’s so all-fired smart.
1938		B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Me, mebbe Ah ain’t so all-fiahed perfect.
1942		Province (Vancouver, BC) 28 Nov. 48/2: I’ve been all-fired busy out there on my boat.
1943		H.A. Smith Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1948) 35: I got so all-farred god-damn mad at women that I never got over it.
1953		R. Chandler Long Good-Bye 119: He belonged on one of those guest ranches that are so all-fired horsey the telephone girl wears riding boots to work.
1956		‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys 🌐 What makes you so all fire sure, Marty?
1960		T. Southern ‘Red-dirt Marijuana’ in Southern (1973) 19: How come it’s against the law if it’s so all-fired good?
1979		Fantastic Four Annual 40: What in blazes are you lookin’ so all-fired grim about?
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 463: Why don’t you write it if you’re so all-fired polite?