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Leaky   /lˈiki/   Listen
adjective
Leaky  adj.  (compar. leakier; superl. leakiest)  
1.
Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.
2.
Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close. (Colloq.)
3.
(Genetics) Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; as, substitution mutations are sometimes leaky; of mutations.





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"Leaky" Quotes from Famous Books



... work in the ship, as it was his duty to do equally with the other men; nor would he buy himself off. They sailed to the South, rounded Reykjanes and left the land behind them, when they met with stormy weather. The ship was rather leaky and became very uneasy in the gale; the crew were very much exhausted. Grettir only let fly satirical verses at ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown
... thatch, and the weight of the snow had been too much for it. Claude wondered if he should have put on a new thatch that fall; but the old one wasn't leaky, and had seemed ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather
... know I've done it," said Mrs. Poyser; "but I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. I shan't repent saying what I think, if I live to be as old as th' old squire; and there's little likelihood—for it seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... pounded over, lurch'd, and sank; Between two sand-bars settling fast, Her leaky hull the waters drank, And she had ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education


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