"fly biscuit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fly biscuits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fly biscuit (plural fly biscuits)
  1. (British) garibaldi biscuit; currants squashed between two thin, rectangular biscuits. Tags: British Synonyms: dead fly biscuit, squashed fly biscuit
    Sense id: en-fly_biscuit-en-noun-5odWM9LF Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1912?, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store\nAt noon we had lunched off fly biscuits and apricots by the side of a swampy creek."
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