The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.
1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning
brandy, and swallow them blazing. --Johnson.
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2. The thing thus caught and eaten. --Johnson.
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Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays,
and all the happy sports of Christians night. --C.
Kingsley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, v. t.
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]
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See how the sea flapdragoned it. --Shak.
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