ALL meanings of flaky
flak·y
F f - 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