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Webster 1913 Edition

Flapdragon

Flap′dragˊon

,
Noun.
1.
A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
Johnson.
2.
The thing thus caught and eaten.
Johnson.
Cakes and ale, and
flapdragons
and mummer’s plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night.
C. Kingsley.

Flap′dragˊon

,
Verb.
T.
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
[Obs.]
See how the sea
flapdragoned
it.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Flapdragon

FLAP'DRAGON

,
Noun.
1.
A play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy, and extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them.
2.
The thing eaten.

FLAP'DRAGON

,
Verb.
T.
To swallow or devour.

Definition 2024

flapdragon

flapdragon

English

Noun

flapdragon ‎(countable and uncountable, plural flapdragons)

  1. A game in which the players snatch raisins out of burning brandy and swallow them blazing.
  2. Any of the raisins in this game.

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