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flite

noun

Etymology

From Middle English flit, from Old English flit, ġeflit (“strife, contention”), from Proto-West Germanic *flit. The Old English term had a short vowel, so the modern term must have had its vowel leveled in from the verb at some point in its history. Cognate with Scots flyte (“scolding, chiding, reproof”), Saterland Frisian Fliet (“zeal, diligence”), Dutch vlijt (“zeal, diligence”), German Low German Fliet (“zeal, diligence”), German Fleiß (“zeal, diligence”), Danish flid (“zeal, diligence”), Swedish flit (“zeal, diligence”).

  1. inherited from *flit✻
  2. inherited from flit
  3. inherited from flit

Definitions

  1. a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.

  2. a scolding.

  3. to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. to scold, jeer.

    2. to make or utter complaint.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA