brimstones

Noun

brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)

1. The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
   • 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (archaic) Sulfur.
   • 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.1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...
3. (obsolete) A whore.
   • 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, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 237
4. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
   • You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
   • A brimstone butterfly flirted among the purple shadows under the palms.1954, Ian Fleming, “Passionate Leave”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 242
6. (Internet) Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.

   Antonyms:

   gemerald