Quarreled or scolded; engaged in abusive speech in the past.
Past tense of 'flite,' formed with regular '-ed' ending (Old English 'de').
In Scottish literary tradition, 'flited' describes poets who competed in formal insult battles, and these 'flyting' matches were serious art—some of the most creative and complex language in medieval literature comes from these supposedly spontaneous verbal duels.
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