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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

... crept over the plain little bunches of cattle followed by brown, lithe riders. Like spokes of a wheel each group moved to a hub. Old Black Ned, the cook, was the focus of their travel. For at Spring River he had waiting for them hot coffee, flaky biscuits, steaks hot from the coals. Each rider seized a tin cup, a tin plate, a knife and fork, and was ready for the best Uncle Ned ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... fire, into the sauce; see that it is all hot; then have the pates ready, fill them with the oysters and sauce, and put a top on each. When the paste of oyster pates is done, remove the tops gently and cleanly with a knife; take out the flaky part of the paste inside and from the inside of the top; cut six little pieces of bread square so as to fill the inside; lay on the top of the paste. Then place them on a sheet of paper in a dish, and put them before the fire, covering them with a cloth to keep them hot. When you are ...

— The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; • Charlotte Campbell Bury

... fearful change across his face had pass'd— He seem'd to rave,—on cheek and lip a flaky foam was cast; He raised on high the glittering blade—then first I found a tongue— "Hold, madman! stay thy frantic deed!" I cried, and forth I sprung; He heard me, but he heeded not; one glance around he gave; And ere I could arrest his hand, he ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... way from the simplest and plainest kind of a plasmodiocarp with only the most delicate frosting of calcareous crystals up through more or less confluent sessile sporangia to well-defined elegantly stipitate, globose fruits, where the lime is sometimes so abundant as to form deciduous flaky scales. The hypothallus, sometimes entirely wanting, is anon well developed, even continuous, venulose, from stipe to stipe. The capillitium varies much in abundance as in color; when scanty, it is colorless and in every way more delicate, when abundant, darker ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... may be 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 ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

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