brimstone

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “And thus I sawe the horses in the vision, and them that sate on them, hauing brest-plates of fire and of Iacinct, and brimstone, & the heades of the horses were as the heads of Lions, and out of their mouthes issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.”

   “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.”

   “[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss […]”

   “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.”

2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)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.”

   “Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)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 […].”

4. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

   “You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!”

   “You're a brimstone idiot.”

   “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.”

5. (countable, uncountable)The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
6. (Internet, countable, uncountable)Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.