Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 flytar, 6 flytter. [OE. flítere, f. flítan to FLITE.] In OE.: A disputer. In later use: One who scolds; a scold.
a. 700. Epinal Gloss., 854. Rabulus, flitere.
a. 1000. Mone B., 2816 (Bosw.-Toller). Flitera, schismaticorum.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 106/2. Cukstoke, for flyterys, turbuscetum.
a. 1605. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 733.
| Fond flytter, shit shytter, bacon bytter, all defyld! | |
| Blunt bleittar, paddock pricker, puddin eiter, perverse, | |
| Hen plucker, closet mucker, house cucker, very vyld! |
1616. R. Rollocke, Passion, I. 500. The Lord was not a flyter, a chyder, an vpbraider, a cryer, &c.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Fliter, a scold, a scolding or abusive person.
