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Definition of Flaky
1. Adjective. Made of or resembling flakes. "Flaky soap"
2. Adjective. Made of or easily forming flakes.
3. Adjective. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual. "Outre and affected stage antics"
Similar to: Unconventional
Derivative terms: Bizarreness, Eccentricity, Flakiness, Flakiness, Freakishness, Outlandishness
Definition of Flaky
1. a. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Definition of Flaky
1. Adjective. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. ¹
3. Adjective. (informal of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly. ¹
4. Adjective. eccentric; scatterbrained ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flaky
1. resembling flakes [adj FLAKIER, FLAKIEST] : FLAKILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaky
Literary usage of Flaky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"Microstructural Features of flaky Steel* BY HENRY 8. RAWDON,t WASHINGTON, DC (New
York Meeting, February, 1919) ONE of the most vital problems in the ..."
2. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1870)
"flaky carb. and coaly shale with charcoal markings, coaly por- tion containing
much red oxide of iron... Blue concretionary shale . ..."
3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"flaky Paste. Wet half a pound of the finest flour, dried before the fire, with
as much water as will make it into a hard stiff paste: roll it one way. ..."
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