dwagon

English

Etymology

From dragon pronounced with rhotacism, imitating childlike or endearing speech. Compare wittle (“little”).

Noun

dwagon (plural dwagons)

1. Pronunciation spelling of dragon.
   • 1922, Mazo De la Roche, Explorers of the Dawn, Macmillan Company of Canada, published 1931, [c1922], page 173:

     You should be a dwagon, an' when I kick on the door you should woar fwightfully.

   • 1923, The Gargoyle:

     Whenever 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."

   • 1927, Dan Totheroh, The Last Dragon:

     “I—I was going to kill the Iwish Dwagon,” Peter said in answer to the mountebank's question, “but—but I fell off.”

   • 2007, Kate McMullan, Little Giant-Big Trouble, Penguin, →ISBN:

     “A WIDDLE DWAGON!”

   • 2013, LRW Lee, Blast of the Dragon's Fury (Book One): Andy Smithson Young Adult Fantasy Series, Woodgate Publishing, →ISBN:

     “They are the warest of dwagon breeds.

See also

• dwaggy