Definition of Flapdregon
Flap"drag`on (?), n. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
FLAP DRAGON. A clap, or pox.
To FLARE. To blaze, shine or glare.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
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