flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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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
But quoth I, Refrain thee nor flyte and scold!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Now this was mair than Hugh could stan’ Frae Tam to get the wite, And getting vent, he burst on Tam, Then baith began to flyte.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Dick, Alexander
O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorne?
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
Ye needna fash to flyte; I'm no' feared.
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)
Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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 Morris, William
So whiles the men flyting the fallow street there With their mares were they meting.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
"Hold your tongue, ye flyting fools," said the Doctor; "and you, ye idle rascals, if I come out among you."
From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir
What is your quarrel about, and for what are ye flyting against the kirk and the minister and the kirkkeepers?
From Foes by Johnston, Mary
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