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Flapdragon
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Flapdragon, n.
- A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson. [1913 Webster]"Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night." [1913 Webster]
Flapdragon, v. t.
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [1913 Webster]
"See how the sea flapdragoned it." [1913 Webster]
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