Flaky Definition

flākē
flakier, flakiest
adjective
flakier, flakiest
Containing or made up of flakes.
Webster's New World
Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments.
Flaky pastry.
American Heritage
Breaking easily into flakes.
Webster's New World
Very eccentric, erratic, irrational, etc.
Webster's New World

(informal, of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

Some of his friends were flaky.
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Other Word Forms of Flaky

Adjective

Base Form:
flaky
Comparative:
flakier
Superlative:
flakiest

Origin of Flaky

  • flake + -y (“having the quality of”)

    From Wiktionary

Flaky Sentence Examples

  • Toby would make an awesome older brother, she realized, unlike her flaky sister.

  • It all just seemed to weird, too flaky.

  • While breads and cakes require a certain elasticity that is hard to duplicate without wheat, pie crust can be crumbly and flaky and still absolutely delicious.

  • There 's us teetering around on severely shortened lengths of flaky drainpipe.

  • Contact dermatitis appears red and flat, and the skin may begin to peel or become flaky.

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Words Starting With

FFLFLA

Words Ending With

YKYAKY

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