Brimfire

Origin

. For more on brim-, see brimstone.

Full definition of brimfire

Noun

1. 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 (), 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 (), 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 ():... hellish creature seeming to rise from that brimfire of the Judgment time.