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flapdragon

\FLAP-drag-uhn\

noun
1. an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
2. the object so caught and eaten.

Quotes

Thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
-- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1598

Origin

Flapdragon entered English in the late 1500s as a portmanteau of flap and dragon.

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Fwd: bajo (3): Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

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bajo, preposition
under; below; by

In earlier Words of the Day we’ve come across bajo as an adjective and an adverb, for example:

una silla muy baja
a very low chair

Bajo is one of those rare Spanish words which you can use in a third grammatical function, as a preposition. You can use it in certain phrases to describe the literal physical position of something:

Llevaba un libro bajo el brazo.
He was carrying a book under his arm.

Or less literally, especially when talking about temperatures below zero:

Estamos a 30 grados bajo cero.
It’s thirty degrees below zero.

You also often use bajo when talking about names and titles of people and things:

Lo conocí bajo otro nombre.
I knew him by a different name.

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