brimstone

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Definizione monolingua


brimstone


Noun

brimstone (countable and uncountable; plural brimstones)


  1. Sulphur.
  2. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  3. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
    You are a brimstone pig. Youre a head of swine! — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
    Youre a brimstone idiot. — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
  4. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
Adjective

brimstone


  1. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
    [W]ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine. — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller
    [A] cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him. — Thomas Hardy Tess of the dUrbevilles
    • [...] he gave vent to a succession of sounds, not unlike the drawing of some eight or ten dozen of long corks, and again asserted his brimstone birth and parentage with great distinctness. — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
    • I wish your brimstone grandmother was here, and hed shave her head off. — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
    • From his brimstone bed at break of day / A walking the Devil is gone. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Definizione dizionario brimstone


Gonepteryx rhamni
  Brimstone (butterfly)
zolfo

Altri significati:
  The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family. Category:Butterflies
  (archaic) Used '''attributively''' as an intensifier in exclamations.
  sulphur
  butterfly species
  Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
  The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  Sulphur.

Traduzione brimstone


Gonepteryx rhamni ,zolfo

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