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flytting
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flytting, n.
Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century.
"These “flytings” consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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