Meanings
plural dwagons
- pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of dragon.
“A WIDDLE DWAGON!”
2007, Kate McMullan, Little Giant-Big Trouble, Penguin, →ISBN4 more examples
You should be a dwagon, an' when I kick on the door you should woar fwightfully.
1922, Mazo De la Roche, Explorers of the Dawn, Macmillan Company of Canada, published 1931, [c1922], page 173Whenever a thnap dwagon thnapth at me Or thickth out itth tongue, indethently, I thealthily sweep up behind the thing, Pick one of itth flowerth and then I thing ; "Thnap dwagon, thnap dwagon — naughty plant."
1923, The Gargoyle“I—I was going to kill the Iwish Dwagon,” Peter said in answer to the mountebank's question, “but—but I fell off.”
1927, Dan Totheroh, The Last Dragon“They are the warest of dwagon breeds.
2013, LRW Lee, Blast of the Dragon's Fury (Book One): Andy Smithson Young Adult Fantasy Series, Woodgate Publishing, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From dragon pronounced with rhotacism, imitating childlike or endearing speech. Compare wittle (“little”).
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