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Webster 1913 Edition
Flaky
Flak′y
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
What showers of mortal hail, what
flaky
fires! Watts.
A
flaky
weight of winter’s purest snows. Wordsworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flaky
FLA'KY
, a.1.
Consisting of flakes or locks; consisting of small loose masses.2.
Lying in flakes; consisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers.Definition 2024
flaky
flaky
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Adjective
flaky (comparative flakier, superlative flakiest)
- Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- (informal, of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
- (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
- 2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport:
- Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.
- I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.
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Derived terms
Translations
Consisting of flakes; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes; flakelike
of a person: unreliable
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