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- Dictionaryflaky/ˈfleɪki/
adjective
- 1. breaking or separating easily into flakes: "she ate flaky rolls spread with cherry jam"
- 2. (of a person) unreliable, eccentric, or unconventional: informal "the flaky friend who turns up late to everything"
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FLAKY definition: 1. coming off easily in small, flat, thin pieces: 2. behaving in a way that is strange, not…. Learn more.
1. : markedly odd or unconventional : offbeat, wacky. has some flaky ideas. He's nice, but a bit flaky. 2. informal : not reliable in performance or behavior : undependable. a flaky mechanism.
People are flaky (also spelled flakey) if they are wacky and unconventional, but to say someone is flaky is not really a compliment. If you want to buffer the blow of calling your friend an odd-ball, don’t say she’s flaky — say she’s eccentric.
lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers. Slang. eccentric; wacky; dizzy: a flaky math professor. flaky. / ˈfleɪkɪ / adjective. like or made of flakes. tending to peel off or break easily into flakes. slang. Alsoflakey eccentric; crazy.
(informal) (of a person) behaving in a strange or unusual way; tending to forget things. He plays a flaky tourist visiting Europe. (British English, informal) that does not work well or often stops working. I found the software a bit flaky. I had problems with a flaky internet connection. See flaky in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
1. Made of or resembling flakes. 2. Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments: flaky pastry. 3. Slang. a. Undependable, as in keeping social engagements: a flaky friend who is always late. b.
flaky. Something that is flaky breaks easily into small thin pieces or tends to come off in small thin pieces. ...a small patch of red, flaky skin. If you describe an idea, argument, or person as flaky, you mean that they are rather eccentric and unreliable.
