fliterflytern.
/ˈflʌɪtə/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
In Old English: A disputer. In later use: One who scolds; a scold.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who
scoldc1175
brawler1377
chider1377
fliterc1440
wraggera1500
bargainer?a1513
wrangler?1518
brangler1611
scolder1673
fratcher1847
jangler1884
a700 Epinal Gloss. 854 Rabulus, flitere.
a1000 Mone B. 2816 (Bosw.-Toller) Flitera, schismaticorum.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106/2 Cukstoke, for flyterys, turbuscetum.
a1599 R. Rollock Lect. Hist. Passion (1616) l. 500 The Lord was not a flyter, a chyder.
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 733 Fond flytter!
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Fliter, a scold, a scolding or abusive person.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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