Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of or containing brimstone; resembling brimstone; sulphurous: as, “brimstony, blue, and fiery,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing or resembling
brimstone ;sulphurous .
Etymologies
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brimstone + -y
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Examples
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Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names — Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet,
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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The place is, as SARK says, the most brimstony on the same level.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various
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