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Flyting

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Contention, noisy argument.
  2. 2
    Scolding, rebuke.
  3. 3
    A poetic contest of insults or invective.

    "Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits."

Etymology

From Middle English fliting, flytyng, equivalent to flyte + -ing.

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