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Definitions: All-fired |
All-firedAdjective1. (informal) extreme; used as an intensifier; "why is he in such an all-fired hurry?". Adverb1. (intensifier) "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "all-fired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
Synonyms: All-firedSynonyms: bloody (adv), damn (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: All-fired |
| English words defined with "all-fired": bloody ♦ damn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "all-fired": SCORCHER. (references) |
| "All-fired" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "All-fired" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "all-fired"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 所有射击. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 모ë" 발사하ëŠ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | all-fireday son derece (almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance). (various references) hết sức (blooming, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), cùng cực (extreme, howling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: dallier, dialler, flailed, frilled, rallied. | |
-2 letters: afield, allied, ariled, derail, dialer, failed, faille, faired, faller, fardel, ferial, filled, filler, flared, ladler, laired, railed, redial, refall, refill, relaid, rifled, rilled. | |
-3 letters: afire, aider, ailed, aired, alder, ariel, deair, drail, drill, fader, fared, farle, felid, fella, feral, feria, field, filar, filed, filer, fille, fired, flail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
+2 letters: alderflies, firewalled. | |
+3 letters: fibrillated. | |
+4 letters: defibrillate. | |
+5 letters: deferentially, defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, disgracefully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 2D 66 69 72 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l - f i r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 002D 0066 0069 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878157275847170 |
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