A fork of Rural Dictionary
The earliest rap battles, invented by Scotsmen
Ritual, poetic exchange of insults practised mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. The root is the Old English word flītan meaning quarrel.
Also known as fliting
Like ane boisteous bull, ye rin and ryde
Royatouslie, lyke ane rude rubatour
Ay fukkand lyke ane furious fornicatour
-Sir David Lyndsay, (The Answer Which Sir David Lyndsay made to the King's Flyting), 1536.
Flyting means when you fly in the sky and fight in the sky
"hey look Superman And Lex Luthor is Flyting"
A rap battle for the higher-minded beings
Example of flyting:
Maggoty mutton, gorged glutton, scurrilous certain heir to Hillhouse,
Rank beggar, oyster-dredger, dismal debtor on the lawn,
Lily-livered, soul-shivered, cheap as slivers in the millhouse,
Bard baiter, thief of nature, false traitor, devil's spawn.
- Dunbar about Kennedy