These ``flytings'' consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. --Saintsbury. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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