FLAKY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'fleykee
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| Matching Terms: | | flak, flak catcher, Flake, flake off, flake out, flake tool, flaker, flake-scar, flakey, flakiness, flaking station, flaking-tool
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [adj] conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
- [adj] made of or easily forming flakes
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| | Synonyms: | | bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, outlandish, outre, tender, unconventional |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flak"y\, a.
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! --Watts.
A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. --Wordsworth.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (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. [Jargon File] |
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