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Subject: flapdragon: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Dec. 31, 2014

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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