Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
century. [Obs. or Scot.]
These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants. --Saintsbury.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]