flite
flite · flites
A quarrel, dispute, wranglingA quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
Meaning
2 senses(dialectal)A quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
(dialectal)A scolding.
Origin
From Middle English flyt, flit, iflit, ȝeflit, from Old English flit, ġeflit (“strife, conFrom 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).
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