Thesaurus: flite
To scold; to quarrel.
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Definitions
- v. i. To scold; to quarrel.
- To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose. Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.] 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. Saintsbury.
- To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
- v. i. To scold; to quarrel.