In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
FLYTING
Etymology
Noun
flyting (plural flytings)
Contention, noisy argument.
Scolding, rebuke.
A poetic contest of insults or invective.
These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.
Source: Wiktionary
FLYTE
Flite, Flyte, n. [AS. flit. See Flite.]
Definition: Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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. Saintsbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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