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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLA'KY, a.
1. Consisting of flakes or locks; consisting of small loose masses.
2. Lying in flakes; consisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made of or resembling flakes; "flaky soap" [syn: flaky, flakey]
2: made of or easily forming flakes [syn: flaky, flakey]
3: 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"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective also flakey (flakier; -est) Date: 1580 1. consisting of flakes <flaky snow> 2. tending to flake <a flaky crust> • flakiness noun II. adjective (flakier; -est) Etymology: ⁴flake Date: circa 1963 markedly odd or unconventional ; offbeat, wacky • flakiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (flakier, flakiest) 1 of or like flakes; separating easily into flakes. 2 esp. US sl. crazy, eccentric. Phrases and idioms: flaky pastry pastry consisting of thin light layers. Derivatives: flakily adv. flakiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flaky Flak"y, a. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something that is flaky breaks easily into small thin pieces or tends to come off in small thin pieces. ...a small patch of red, flaky skin. ADJ 2. If you describe an idea, argument, or person as flaky, you mean that they are rather eccentric and unreliable. (INFORMAL) He wondered if the idea wasn't just a little too flaky, a little too outlandish. ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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