• (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. • (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. • (n.) The thing thus caught and eaten.
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Flap'drag`on noun 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
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an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them. · the object so caught and eaten.
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