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flaky - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of or resembling flakes.
- adjective Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments.
- adjective Slang Somewhat eccentric; odd.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of flakes or locks; lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers; flake-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- adjective prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
- adjective odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior.
- adjective unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of
flakes or of small,loose masses ; lying, orcleaving off, inflakes orlayers ; flakelike. - adjective informal, of a person
Unreliable ; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. - adjective informal, of a thing
Unreliable ; working only on anintermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
- adjective made of or easily forming flakes
- adjective made of or resembling flakes
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
flake + -y ("having the quality of")
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Examples
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They lusted after his recipes, and most especially, whole baked apples wrapped in flaky pie crusts.
Wildfires and old men: the legacy of US immigrants in Talpa 2008
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They lusted after his recipes, and most especially, whole baked apples wrapped in flaky pie crusts.
Wildfires and old men: the legacy of US immigrants in Talpa 2008
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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.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
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However, the stuff about her short career at Microsoft as a proxy for her being flaky is unwarranted.
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I use the recipe from “Baking with Julia” and it turns out great, flaky from the shortening with rich flavor from the butter.
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What I call flaky pastry is made in exactly the same way as sweet pastry pâte brisée and pâte sucrée.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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What I call flaky pastry is made in exactly the same way as sweet pastry pâte brisée and pâte sucrée.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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What I call flaky pastry is made in exactly the same way as sweet pastry pâte brisée and pâte sucrée.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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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.
The First World War 2003
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What It All Means: The Seminoles can no longer be called flaky; they're just not that good.
Related Words
synonyms (178)
Words with the same meaning
- abnormal
- anomalous
- apish
- arbitrary
- asinine
- asperous
- balmy
- bananas
- barmy
- bats
- batty
- beany
- befooled
- beguiled
- besotted
- bonkers
- brainless
- branny
- buffoonish
- buggy
- bughouse
- bugs
- capricious
- chalklike
- chalky
- cleavable
- cockeyed
- comminute
- comminuted
- crackers
- crank
- crankish
- cranky
- crazy
- credulous
- crotchety
- crushed
- cuckoo
- daffy
- daft
- dazed
- detrital
- detrited
- deviant
- deviative
- different
- dippy
- disintegrated
- divergent
- dizzy
- doting
- dotty
- dumb
- dusty
- eccentric
- efflorescent
- erratic
- exceptional
- fanciful
- fantasied
- fantastic
- farinaceous
- fatuitous
- fatuous
- fey
- fine
- flakelike
- flipped
- flocculent
- floury
- fond
- fool
- foolheaded
- foolish
- freaked-out
- freakish
- fruitcakey
- fruity
- fuddled
- funny
- furfuraceous
- futile
- gaga
- gone to dust
- goofy
- grated
- ground
- gulled
- harebrained
- haywire
- humorsome
- idiocratic
- idiosyncratic
- idiotic
- imbecile
- impalpable
- inane
- inept
- infatuated
- insane
- irregular
- just plain nuts
- kinky
- kooky
- laminate
- lentiginous
- lepidote
- levigated
- loony
- loopy
- mad
- maggoty
- maudlin
- mealy
- milled
- moody
- moronic
- motiveless
- notional
- nuts
- nutty
- odd
- oddball
- off the hinges
- off the track
- off the wall
- offbeat
- peculiar
- pestled
- petulant
- potty
- powdered
- powdery
- pulverant
- pulverized
- pulverulent
- queer
- quirky
- reduced to powder
- round the bend
- sappy
- scabby
- scabious
- scabrous
- scaly
- scobicular
- scobiform
- screwball
- screwballs
- screwy
- scurfy
- senseless
- sentimental
- sharded
- shredded
- silly
- singular
- slaphappy
- squamous
- strange
- stupid
- temperamental
- thoughtless
- triturated
- twisted
- unconventional
- unnatural
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
- vagarious
- vagrant
- wacky
- wanton
- wayward
- wet
- whacky
- whimsical
- witless
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