- a variation of flite.
flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Mass, but she's out in the street, come o't what like, and the auld Glover will be as mad as if I could withhold her, will she nill she, flyte she fling she.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
"She kenned no to flyte, and he went like a lamb."
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorn?
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte?
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Take me from Pevensey to fisk and flyte through fern and forest, and in three days Robert’s keels would be lying on Pevensey mud with ten thousand men!
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
Father was very angry when he came, and said he’d take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.
From Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
And in 1642 “John Bryson’s wife, in Scougall, is to be warned next day to the session for flyting with her husband, and abusing him by her unreverent speeches.”
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
Take off the ring, sweetling, and get thee to thine hunting, for if thou come home empty-handed there will be flyting awaiting thee, or worse.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
She was talking to herself, and "flyting on" the patient cows, who now stood chewing the cuds of their breakfast.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Ae day he was flyting wi' anither sodger-lad.
There was never a fair word in flyting.
From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy
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