flyting
nounEtymology From Middle English fliting, flytyng, equivalent to flyte + -ing.
1
Contention, noisy argument.
2
Scolding, rebuke.
3
A poetic contest of insults or invective.
- Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits.2007, Marina Warner, “Doubly Damned”, in London Review of Books, 29:3, p. 26:
- These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature: