brimstone
a virago; shrew.
Origin of brimstone
1Other words from brimstone
- brimstony, adjective
Words Nearby brimstone
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How to use brimstone in a sentence
I was used to the fire and brimstone rhetoric at this point, but the idea that you could be “out of your mind” was new to me.
Some lawmakers were more hellfire-and-brimstone than others.
Ted’s Excellent Adventure: How Cruz Rocked the Value Voters Summit | Michelle Cottle | October 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom Cyrus on, however, it was all, to borrow another Biblical allusion, fire and brimstone.
Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss brought the fire and brimstone this season, and for this, deserve the shiny hardware.
Emmys 2013: What Show Should Win It All? Our Critics Debate | Kevin Fallon, Marlow Stern | September 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMrs. Lincoln, who is a bit of a Bible-thumper, is strongly depicted in the film instead as a fire-and-brimstone conservative.
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Having never played a villain before, DiCaprio relishes in the opportunity, spewing fire and brimstone.
Oscar Nominations Shockers: Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kathryn Bigelow & More | Marlow Stern | January 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey used to declare that every unbaptised baby would go to Hell and burn for ever in fire and brimstone.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordAin't got used to brimstone yet, but I'd trade mosquitoes for sulphur smoke and give some boot.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerLet equal portions of salt and slaked lime be in one; salt and wood ashes in another; and salt and brimstone in a third.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenHeave ahead, my lads,” cried the slave captain; “and below there, get those brimstone-pans going at once.
Mass' George | George Manville FennThose devils there emptying cargoes of lost souls into the brimstone pits,—surely they could not be men!
Mountain | Clement Wood
British Dictionary definitions for brimstone
/ (ˈbrɪmˌstəʊn) /
an obsolete name for sulphur
a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
archaic a scolding nagging woman; virago
Origin of brimstone
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