flapdragon

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLAP'DRAGON, noun 1. A play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy, and extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them. 2. The thing eaten. FLAP'DRAGON, verb transitive To swallow or devour.
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