flite

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

flite, v. i. [AS. flītan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.].

 To scold; to quarrel.  Grose.  [1913 Webster]

flite, n. [AS. flīt. See Flite.].

 Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling.
"The bird of Pallas has also a good “flyte” on the moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]