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blewits - What does it mean?

Definition of 'blewits'

English

Noun

(blewits)
  • A type of edible mushroom.
  • * 1979 , Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber , Vintage 2006, p. 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.