Phrase: all-fired sure of oneself :-)

[Tamara]

Hi

Could you comment the use of He is all-fired sure of himself?
(grammar, tone, contexts, examples of your personal use of all-fired, whatever)

By the way, in this forum all-fired has never been used (if the search machine works fine this Valentine's morning.)
This (MY!!!) use is the (pioneerily) first. :) ...all-fired proud :)
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[Jamie (K)]

I've looked this up in several dictionaries, and none of them give an etymology. It could be a reference to hell, but I always thought of it as having guns a-blazin'.

[Pamela]

Hi Tamara and Jamie(K),

If my memory doesn't fail me, I met this phrase in one text. As far as I remember, it had the sense of ‘damned’. :)

[Haihao]

Hi,

A dictionary is willing to go to bat for Jamie:

[Tamara]

Hi all,