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flapdragon

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Noun
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flap=drag=on

CIDE DICTIONARY

flapdragonn. 
  •  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]
flapdragonv. t. 
     To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.  [1913 Webster]
    "See how the sea flapdragoned it."  [1913 Webster]

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