brimfire
English edit
Etymology edit
Middle English brimfīr. For more on brim-, see brimstone.
Noun edit
brimfire (uncountable)
- Sulfurous fire such as is associated with Hell; hellfire.
- 2010, Carl Finney, Tales from the Pushin Off: Childhood During the 1940's and 1950's, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 179:
- She let out a screech that could have been heard a mile away, while at the same time, calling us every ugly name she could think of and proceeded to call down brimfire and burning coals upon our heads.
- 2011, Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Surrender, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 362:
- The circles with demons in them were brimful of brimfire, and the demons inside them were negotiating with the magicians.
- 2014, D.N. Greenwald, Desire To Be Satisfied, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- [...] hellish creature seeming to rise from that brimfire of the Judgment time.