flyte

plural flytes

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of flite.

   The bird of Pallas has also a good flyte on the moral side […] in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.

   1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature

present singular third person flytes · participle present flyting · participle past flyted · past flyted

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of flite.

   It was plain she was in the worst of tempers. She flyted on the lass till the poor thing's cheek paled.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

   1 more example

   "I know, he flyted you!" I yelled. "He flyted you bad! You and all your godly guests got a mean flyting. He even flyted your mead! But we can defeat Loki and pay him back. I—I will challenge Loki myself!"

   2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead, page 98