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adjective

Flaky adj.

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!" "A flaky weight of winter's purest snows."

Prone to strange or erratic behavior; of persons.

Odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; of behavior.

Unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; of machinery, especially electronic devices. "a flaky computer board."

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Etymology of 'Flaky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"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

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