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flapdragons

flapdragons is the plural of flapdragon.

Meaning of flapdragon

Noun

flapdragon (countable and uncountable, plural flapdragons)

  1. (obsolete) 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...
  2. 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]...
    Synonyms:
    snapdragon

Questions about flapdragons

What is flapdragons the plural of?
Flapdragons is the plural of flapdragon.

Words near flapdragons in the dictionary

  1. flapdoodlers
  2. flapdoodlery
  3. flapdoodles
  4. flapdoodling
  5. flapdragon
  6. flapdragons
  7. flaperon
  8. flaperons
  9. flapgate
  10. flapgates
  11. flapjack

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