flite
Plural: flites
Noun
- a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
- a scolding.
Verb
Verb Forms: flited, fliting, flites
- To quarrel or scold; to contend angrily in words.
- to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.
- to scold, jeer.
- to make or utter complaint.
Examples
- They would flite over dictionary rulings, always having the last word.
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 8
flite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary