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Flapdragon
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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"drag`on\, v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. --Shak. |
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