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ALL meanings of flaky

flak·y
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  • adjective flaky substance: crumbly 1
  • adjective flaky person: unreliable 1
  • noun flaky Breaking or separating easily into small thin pieces. 1
  • adjective flaky of or like flakes. 1
  • adjective flaky lying or cleaving off in flakes or layers. 1
  • adjective flaky Slang. eccentric; wacky; dizzy: a flaky math professor. 1
  • noun Technical meaning of flaky (Or "flakey") Subject to frequent lossage. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of - enough that you are tempted to try to use it - but fails frequently enough that the odds in favour of finishing what you start are low. Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy. 1
  • adjective flaky Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. 0
  • adjective flaky (Informal) (of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. 0
  • adjective flaky (Informal) (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly. 0
  • adjective flaky Something that is flaky breaks easily into small thin pieces or tends to come off in small thin pieces. 0
  • adjective flaky If you describe an idea, argument, or person as flaky, you mean that they are rather eccentric and unreliable. 0
  • adjective flaky like or made of flakes 0
  • adjective flaky tending to peel off or break easily into flakes 0
  • adjective flaky eccentric; crazy 0
  • adjective flaky containing or made up of flakes 0
  • adjective flaky breaking easily into flakes 0
  • adjective flaky very eccentric, erratic, irrational, etc. 0
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