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flapdragon en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A game in which the players take raisins out of burning brandy, and swallow them.
    • From stabbing of armes, Flap-dragons[…]and all such swaggering Humors. 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Any of the raisins in this game.
    • Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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Synonyms

snapdragon (game)