dragon:
(plural: ‘dragons‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is pronounced with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a typical ‘dragon’
a fierce older woman who does not allow any freedom to a young girl or woman whom she looks after (young woman who is in her charge/care);
a very cruel person;
a soldier armed with a musket (musket = a kind gun used in olden days)
a dragon — a cruel unruly man
When Nikki, my eldest granddaughter, was very young, she used to call anybody with an attitude a ‘dragon’.
Most of the junior pupils at our girls’ boarding school named the old matron a dragon for keeping an eye on each of them every time and being stern with them even during play-time.
In cities you see not one but several dragons, big blurry drunkards, who kidnap small children, beat them up and even cripple them physically in order to turn them into beggars or child labourers, and make a lot of money on them!
a dragon — a soldier
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