brimstone

Значение (Английский)

1. The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
2. sulfur.
3. (obsolete) A whore.
4. Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
6. Internet content of exceptionally low quality; coal.

Синонимы

sulphur

sulfur

native sulphur

native sulfur

brimstone butterfly

asunder

common brimstone

busted

dead

💀

kaput

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian + stone, or burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone.
Once a synonym for "sulfur", the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.