A variant of ALL-FIRED, q.v.
1824. Whate’er joe fir’d racket they keep up.—Woodstock (Vt.) Observer, Feb. 24.
1833. To be sure the critter looks rather sleepy as he stands, and on that account I call him Sleepy David; but he’s a jo-fired smart horse for all that.—Asa Greene (‘Elnathan Elmwood’), ‘A Yankee among the Nullifiers,’ p. 29.
1834. It’s jo-fired hard, though, I’ll be hanged if it aint.—Vermont Free Press, July 19: from the N.Y. Constellation.
1835. I have lately found out a most Jo-fired discovery.—D. P. Thompson, ‘Adventures of Timothy Peacock,’ p. 168.
1848. He “always know’d Badger was a jo-fired fool, but he didn’t want him carried off in the steamer for all that.”—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 50.
