Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Made of or resembling flakes.
- adj. Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments: flaky pastry.
- adj. Slang Somewhat eccentric; odd: "that slightly flakey quality, in joy as well as in grief, that prepares us subtly for the mad scenes to come” ( Village Voice).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of flakes or locks; lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers; flake-like.
Wiktionary
- adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- adj. informal, of a person Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
- adj. informal, of a thing Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- adj. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
- adj. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior.
- adj. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
- adj. made of or easily forming flakes
- adj. made of or resembling flakes
Etymologies
- flake + -y ("having the quality of") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They lusted after his recipes, and most especially, whole baked apples wrapped in flaky pie crusts.”
“However, the stuff about her short career at Microsoft as a proxy for her being flaky is unwarranted.”
“This morning, I went to the local bakery to buy fartons (a local pastry, sort of a long thin flaky croissant-like thing with frosting on top, meant to be dunked in horchata) but they only had one left.”
“I use the recipe from “Baking with Julia” and it turns out great, flaky from the shortening with rich flavor from the butter.”
“What I call flaky pastry is made in exactly the same way as sweet pastry pâte brisée and pâte sucrée.”
“HOWARD: He was, as President Reagan would have said, he was flaky, that is to say he was very intelligent, not nearly so intelligent as he thought he was.”
“What It All Means: The Seminoles can no longer be called flaky; they're just not that good.”
“Susie Homemaker said ... how awesome! yours looks perfect, whether they are "flaky" or not ...”
“This progresses me away from my image as some kind of flaky "rogue diva" and back to my image as a tough huntin 'and fishin' gal.”
“Maybe it sounds like a kind of flaky answer about something that involves, evidently, 12 days of correcting my diet and sleeping patterns followed by 12 weeks of six-day-a-week workouts and some other stuff for 12 months.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flaky’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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textures
rocky, smooth, slimy, bumpy, sharp, silky, grainy, flaky, ridged, rugged, cracked
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 619 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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Funny People (2009)
Words from 2009 'Funny People' film.
frenzy, mousy, antsy, flaky, stutter, twitch, purse, gullible, hatred, dum-dum, jack off, vanquish and 16 more...
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floornow's Words
nifty, confused, chasity, staff, change, pneumatic, chlorophyll, trickster, antithesis, crafty, smooth, ceraceo and 20 more...
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