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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

... snow-topped hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies. ...

— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various

... yet another, like timid kisses blown down upon the clownish brow of Broadway. A motorman shielded his eyes from the right merry whirl and swore in his throat. A fruit-cheeked girl paused in the flare of a Mammoth Store show-window, looked up at her lover and the flaky star that lit and died on his mustache, and laughed with the musical glee of a bird. A beggar slid farther out from his doorway and pushed his hat into the flux of the sidewalk. More flakes, dancing upward like suds blown in merriment from the palm of a hand—light, ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... them now, whatever they were" (for Henderson was attempting to rake them out between the bars); "they're done for now," and he pressed down the thick mass of foolscap into the reddest centre of the fire, and held it there until nothing remained of it but a heap of flaky crimson ashes. ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... obtained of the relatively small amount of nourishment even in this form of extract when it is remembered that the thin flaky matter which sinks to the bottom in the bowl is practically the only nutritive portion ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... thee from thy mother, Who prays continually for Richmond's good. So much for that.—The silent hours steal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east. In brief,—for so the season bids us be,— Prepare thy battle early in the morning, And put thy fortune to the arbitrement Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war. I, as I may,—that which I would I cannot,— With best ...

— The Life and Death of King Richard III • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

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