Flyting

Origin

From flyte.

Full definition of flyting

Noun

1. Contention, noisy argument.
2. Scolding, rebuke.
3. A poetic contest of insults or invective.
• 2007: Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits — Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26