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Definition 2024

flyting ‎(plural flytings)

Contention, noisy argument.
Scolding, rebuke.
A poetic contest of insults or invective.
- 2007: Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits — Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26
- Saintsbury
  These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.