a euphemism for damned attested from 1756. See hellfire.
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hellfire n.
also hell-fire, "the fire of Hell, eternal torment," from Old English hellefyr, in which helle is the genitive case of hell. It translates Greek gehenna tou pyros, literally "hell of fire." Also used in Middle English for "erysipelas" (mid-15c.).
all-fired adj.
1829, U.S. slang, said to be a euphemism for hell-fired, but perhaps it is what it says, with all as an intensive.