subs. (costers’).—A red-skinned apple.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i., 63. A cheap red-skinned fruit, known to costers as GAWFS, is rubbed hard, to look bright and feel soft, and is mixed with apples of a superior description. GAWFS are sweet and sour at once, I was told, and fit for nothing but mixing.
