flyting

plural flytings

1. Contention, noisy argument.
2. Scolding, rebuke.
3. A poetic contest of insults or invective.

   Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits.

   2007, Marina Warner, “Doubly Damned”, in London Review of Books, 29:3, p. 26

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   These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.

   1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature