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• a variation of flite.

flyte

American  

[flahyt] / flaɪt /

verb (used without object)

flyted, flyting

1. a variant of flite.

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flyte British  

/ flaɪt, fləɪt /

verb

1. a variant spelling of flite

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Example Sentences

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flyte flyted flyting

You would hardly do the right thing, if I didn't flyte at you, Andrew.

From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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 Alexander Dick

O child of Adam let not hope make mock and flyte at thee vi.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

I sall scream oot at sich words—" "Dinna flyte mair at me for ony sake, Aunt Janet.

From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

Critical attention was absorbed by controversies of Campion and Daniel over native and classical versification, and the flyting of Harvey and Nash.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark

There was never a fair word in flyting.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

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.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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