flyting: /FLY-ting/

a dispute or exchange of personal abuse in verse form

how to use in casual conversation:

"i don't want to fight with you sweetheart, that is unless we're flyting"

not to be confused with:

flighty

how it makes me feel:

ohhh man. this is freaking brilliant. consider the overall improvement in
human-human relations if every time we got upset we had to articulate as
such in verse. no! - in haiku. picture an imaginary married couple:

"lay around the house
feet smell like dead marmot guts
why did we marry?"

"you were knocked up
father's shotgun threatening
i could have done worse"

or better yet imagine me interacting with all those goddamn seattlites who
refuse to properly yield the right of way to pedestrians and bicylcists while driving their stupid, stupid cars in the rain:

"own the road? no sir
right of way is mine, you ass.
sweet indignation"

editorial note:

i'm dedicating this entire post to my good friend anonymous on the internet, especially the haikus. happy early hanukkah - chowderhead.