flitingflytingn.
/ˈflʌɪtɪŋ/ Now dialect.
a. The action of flite v.; contention, wrangling; scolding, rebuking; †a reproach.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel
flitingc1200
chidec1325
bicker1330
janglingc1330
chiding1340
wrangling1377
brawling1393
altercationc1405
words1410
brabblementa1563
wording1564
brabblery1567
bickering1573
jarring1574
bickerment1586
frapling1600
brangling1611
jangle1641
campling1660
frabble1685
collieshangie1737
flickering1776
wranglea1797
brabbling1858
bassa-bassa1956
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding
chidingc893
flitingc1200
scolding1486
rating1556
schooling1557
chafing?1578
railwifery1695
ragging1788
mobbing1803
fratching1805
row1830
tongue-lashing1881
rough tonguing1916
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of
admonishingc1350
reproofc1400
fliting1435
rebuke?a1439
snibc1450
reprehensiona1500
redargution1514
remorda1529
piece of one's mind1536
check1541
snuba1556
rebuking1561
boba1566
sneap1600
snipping1601
reprimand1636
repriment1652
rubber1699
slap1736
twinkation1748
rap1777
throughgoing1817
dressing-down1823
downset1824
hazing1829
snubbing1841
downsetting1842
raking1852
calling1855
talking toc1875
rousting1900
strafe1915
strafing1915
raspberry1919
rousing1923
bottle1938
reaming1944
ticking-off1950
serve1967
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 13 Twifold speche and ilch fliting of worde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 27742 Fliting [a1425 Galba fliteing] shindis & misdemis.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 10 No man suld dar presume, nor be pryde raise vp hym-self..when flitynges to hym ar cast.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 174 May nane pas throw ȝour principall gaittis..For feusum flyttingis of defame.
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxiii. 189 My meek Lord..would not contend for the last word of flyting.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 215 I..maun just take what ony Christian body will gie, wi' few words and nae flyting.
b. Originally Scottish. Poetical invective; originally, a kind of contest practised by the Scottish poets of the 16th cent., in which two persons assailed each other alternately with tirades of abusive verse; also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > competitive poetic invective
fliting1568
Poetomachia1602
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 44 (title) The flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. M Let all ȝour verse be Literall..bot speciallie Tumbling verse for flyting.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Poems (title) The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 21 The proceedings ended with a ‘flyting’. Three of the singers..proceeded to improvise stanzas of derision at one another's expense.
1948 Eng. Stud. 29 166 The fliting between Unferth and Beowulf.
1959 A. G. Brodeur Art of Beowulf 144 Flytings are either exchanges of rude wit, rough games, or invective preceding a fight.
1962 G. K. Hunter John Lyly vi. 335 In the ‘flytings’ between Katherine and Petruchio the exchanges wear the guise of wit.
1968 Listener 25 Apr. 525/3 Beckett had anticipated the sequence in the flyting in Waiting for Godot.
Compounds
fliting-free adj. unrestricted in administering rebukes.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > rebuking or reproving > unrestricted in
fliting-free1637
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. clxxxi. 436 Christ is honest, and in that is flyting-free with sinners.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 219 I am flyting free with you.
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