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
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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.
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