flyting

noun 3

Definitions

noun

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.

These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.

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