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Flapdragon
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.
2. The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.