- a variation of flite.
flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorn?
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
"Have you not better word than that?" she would flyte at him at the second cry; and if the bird would crow the three times, she would be lavish with the feeding and grow cheerful.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
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
Sing o' her carles teuch an' auld, Her carlines grim that flyte an' scauld, Her wabsters blithe, an' souters bauld, Her flocks an' herds sae fair to see.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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
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
Ae day he was flyting wi’ anither sodger-lad.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
There ne'er was a fair word in flyting.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Ae day he was flyting wi' anither sodger-lad.
Tragedies vary with humorous skits, extravagant and mocking, and the collection is enlivened with many flyting poems about tailors—a favorite butt of the peasant past.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English 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
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