flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Mattha Branthet," said Reuben Thwaite, "what, man, thoo didst flyte the minister!
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
I sall scream oot at sich words—" "Dinna flyte mair at me for ony sake, Aunt Janet.
From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Rackham, Arthur
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Rogers, Charles
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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
Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
There ne'er was a fair word in flyting.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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 Morris, William
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