fly biscuit

English

Noun

fly biscuit (plural fly biscuits)

1. (British) garibaldi biscuit; currants squashed between two thin, rectangular biscuits.
   • 1912?, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store

     At noon we had lunched off fly biscuits and apricots by the side of a swampy creek.

Synonyms

• dead fly biscuit
• squashed fly biscuit