Flyting

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  • n. Contention, noisy argument.
  • n. Scolding, rebuke.
  • n. A poetic contest of insults or invective.
  • Word Usage
    "The poem contains more than one "flyting" -- to use the Scottish term -- and the high war of words between Satan and Abdiel in heaven, or between Satan and Gabriel on earth, could not have been handled save by a master of all the weapons of verbal fence and all the devices of wounding invective."
    Verb Form
    flyted    flyting   
    Unknown
    flute   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dispute    abuse