Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Flaky   /flˈeɪki/   Listen
Flaky

adjective
1.
Made of or resembling flakes.  Synonym: flakey.
2.
Made of or easily forming flakes.  Synonym: flakey.
3.
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.  Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre.  "Famed for his eccentric spelling" , "A freakish combination of styles" , "His off-the-wall antics" , "The outlandish clothes of teenagers" , "Outre and affected stage antics"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Flaky" Quotes from Famous Books



... With flaky form in varying colours spread On the round pastry cake of household bread! Heaven sent us that kabob! For no one could (Save heaven he should rob) Produce a thing so excellently good, Or give us roasted meat With ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... the Swan, entrenched behind An inimitable neck: "After all, there's nothing sweeter For the lawn or lake Than simple white, if fine and flaky And absolutely free ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti

... the plateau which was invisible from the plain, and here in feverish haste they built a little cairn. Many flaky slabs of stone were lying about, and it did not take long to prop the largest of these against a rock, so as to make a lean-to, and then to put two side-pieces to complete it. The slabs were of the same colour as the rock, ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle

... flags, fresh sanded; the counter was of deal, scrubbed as white almost as flour; on the shelves were heaped the loaves of the morning's baking, along with a large store of scones and rolls and baps—the last, the best bread in the world—biscuits hard and soft, and those brown discs of delicate flaky piecrust, known as buns. And the smell that came through the very glass, it seemed to the child, was as that of the tree of life in the Paradise of which he had never heard. But most enticing of all to the eyes of the little wanderer of the street were the penny-loaves, hot ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald

... herself, the tricks of coquetry were foreign to her, unless flaky biscuits and snowy bread may be so called; and so, day by day, she went on baking, scrubbing, and sewing, taking what happiness she could out ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org