brimstone

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noun

Plural noun:

brimstones

1.
(countable, uncountable)(biblical) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Sulfur.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A whore.
4.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
5.
(countable, uncountable)The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
6.
(Internet, countable, uncountable)(Internet slang) Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.

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gemerald

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brimstonewortbrimstonyfire and brimstonerain fire and brimstonebrimstone matchbrimstone flower

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From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (brimstone), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with brunstane brimstone, brennisteinn, Bernstein amber. Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.