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flite

The English word “flite” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
  2. a scolding.

verb

  1. to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.
  2. to scold, jeer.
  3. to make or utter complaint.

Etymology

From Middle English flyt, flit, iflit, ȝeflit, from Old English flit, ġeflit (“strife, contention”), from Proto-West Germanic *flit n; related to Proto-West Germanic *flīt m, from Proto-Germanic *flītaz (“zeal, striving, diligence”). The term in Old English had a short vowel, so the long vowel in the modern term was likely influenced by the verb (see below). Cognate with Scots flyte (“scolding,…

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