Flytting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
     Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
     contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
     century. [Obs. or Scot.]
  
           These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of


           sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
           combatants.                              --Saintsbury.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]