brimstone
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈbɹɪmˌstəʊn/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈbɹɪmˌstoʊn/
Noun

brimstone

  1. The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  2. (obsolete) Sulfur.
  3. (obsolete) A whore.
    • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 237:
      I went to the park, picked up a low Brimstone, called myself a Barber, & agreed with her for Sixpence, went to the bottom of the park, arm in arm, & dipped my machine in the Canal […].
  4. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
  5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
Translations Translations
  • Russian: прокля́тый
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