flitting

n.	1.	A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
	2.	A removal from one habitation to another. A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. - Jeffrey.
	1.	Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. - Saintsbury.

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