A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1460-1629
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Flyter, Flytter, n. Also: fliter, flitter, flytar, flyttar, flyettare, flitar. [ME. flytere (c 1440), OE. flítere.] One who engages in flyting; a brawler or scolder.c1460 Consail Wys Man 39.
Strow nocht thi stra in flytaris fyre1502 Dunferm. B. Rec. 368.
Banyst … Megge Cutlar, Agnes Tulch, fliteris 1520 Stirling B. Rec. I. 5.
Marion Cant was fundin a common flyttar1559 Peebles B. Rec. 256.
That na flitaris nor scauldis be hard on the gait … vnder the pane of puttin of thame in the cuke stulis1581 Perth Kirk S. 241.
That every flyter, convicted of flyting, shall pay ane half merk to the poor 1595 St. A. Kirk S. 808.
All flytaris, flatteraris, … and wikked sklanderaris1604 Paisley B. Rec. 269.
All skalds and flyettars within this burgh being tryit1613 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 53.
Scho is ane commond flytter and drunkart 1629 Misc. Spald. C. V. 224.
Haiffand power of the laird to tak ordour with all flytters and bakbytters
