See brimstone on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "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.\nOnce a synonym for \"sulfur\", the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
"text": "For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:",
"text": "Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.",
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"text": "[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss [...]",
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"ref": "1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:",
"text": "But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.",
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"ref": "1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 237:",
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"ref": "1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:",
"text": "You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!",
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"ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.",
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"Terms with Old Prussian translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Udmurt translations",
"en:Pierid butterflies",
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"word": "brimstone flower"
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"word": "brimstone match"
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"word": "brimstonewort"
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"word": "brimstony"
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"word": "fire and brimstone"
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"word": "rain fire and brimstone"
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:",
"text": "For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.",
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{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:",
"text": "Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times:",
"text": "[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:",
"text": "But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.",
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"ref": "1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary:",
"text": "Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:",
"text": "Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.",
"type": "quote"
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"(archaic) sulfur."
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"ref": "1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 237:",
"text": "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 […].",
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"A whore."
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"(obsolete) A whore."
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{
"ref": "1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:",
"text": "You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:",
"text": "You're a brimstone idiot.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.",
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"(archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations."
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"The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family."
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"word": "gem"
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{
"ref": "2024 May 22, various authors, Soyjak Wiki:",
"text": "Brimstone […] is a form of coal from hell that actively harms the posters who view it due to how incredibly low-quality it is.",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sofre"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"word": "tulikivi"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"word": "kénkő"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"word": "belerang"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cedronella"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "zolfo"
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{
"code": "prg",
"lang": "Old Prussian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"word": "sweppils"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pucioasă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žúpel",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "жу́пел"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the sulfur of Hell",
"word": "svavel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intensifier in exclamations",
"word": "tulimmainen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prokljátyj",
"sense": "intensifier in exclamations",
"word": "прокля́тый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čórtov",
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"word": "чёртов"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zlovrédnyj",
"sense": "intensifier in exclamations",
"word": "зловре́дный"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "лимоница"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "llimonera"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "citronsommerfugl"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "citroenvlinder"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "sitruunaperhonen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "citron"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zitronenfalter"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "limonít",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "לִימוֹנִית"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "citromlepke"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cedronella"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mennorangnabi",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "멧노랑나비"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "butterfly species",
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"masculine"
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"word": "citrontauriņš"
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "butterfly species",
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"masculine"
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"word": "krūkļu baltenis"
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "citrinukas"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лимо́нница"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krušínnica",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "круши́нница"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "citronfjäril"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "butterfly species",
"word": "orakkanat"
},
{
"code": "udm",
"lang": "Udmurt",
"roman": "čužbubyľi",
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"word": "ӵужбубыли"
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],
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}
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