blewits

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English

Etymology

Probably from blue.

Pronunciation

Noun

blewits (plural blewits)

  1. A type of edible mushroom.
    • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98:
      Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.