flapdragon

English

Noun

flapdragon (countable and uncountable, plural flapdragons)

  1. A game in which the players snatch raisins out of burning brandy and swallow them blazing.
  2. Any of the raisins in this game.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flapdragon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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