All-fired

  

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All-fired

Definitions: All-fired

All-fired

Adjective

1. (informal) extreme; used as an intensifier; "why is he in such an all-fired hurry?".

Adverb

1. (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-fired

Synonyms: bloody (adv), damn (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: All-fired

English words defined with "all-fired": bloodydamn. (references)
Specialty definitions using "all-fired": SCORCHER. (references)

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Usage Frequency: All-fired

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All-fired

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

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: All-fired

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: All-fired


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 2D 66 69 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#102 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#100

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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