'Flapdragon' definitions:
Definition of 'Flapdragon'
From: GCIDE
- Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, n.
- 1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flapdragon'
From: GCIDE
- Flapdragon \Flap"drag`on\, v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- See how the sea flapdragoned it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]