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CIDE DICTIONARY

flytting

CIDE DICTIONARY

flyttingn. 
     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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