snap dragon

Noun

snapdragon (countable and uncountable, plural snapdragons)

1. (countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
   • […]of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees;1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Toad's Adventures”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 166

   Synonyms:

   dragon flower

2. (uncountable) A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
   • He bore a ſtrange kind of Appetite to Snap-dragon, and to the livid Snuffs of a burning Candle, which he would catch and ſwallow with an Agility, wonderful to conceive; [...]1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section XI”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 198

   Synonyms:

   flapdragon