brimstone
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
brimstone
- The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
- (obsolete) Sulfur.
- (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 […].
- 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 237:
- (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
- The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
- Italian: cedronella, zolfo
- Russian: жу́пел
- Russian: прокля́тый
- French: citron
- German: Zitronenfalter
- Italian: cedronella
- Russian: лимо́нница
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