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US
/ˈfɫeɪki/
]
[ UK /flˈeɪki/ ]
[ UK /flˈeɪki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- made of or easily forming flakes
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conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
famed for his eccentric spelling
outre and affected stage antics
his off-the-wall antics
the outlandish clothes of teenagers
a freakish combination of styles -
made of or resembling flakes
flaky soap
How To Use flaky In A Sentence
- The Scottish foursome sound nicely chilled where they used to be, for better or worse, just plain flaky.
- He plays a flaky tourist visiting Europe.
- The central character of the play is a flaky neurotic.
- Among the entrées, the dosai is a large crêpe wrapped into a cone shape; lift the crêpe and there is a piece of sea bass done to flaky perfection with a swirl of light chutney.
- Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
- We refuse to settle for just being a nutty professor, a flaky musician, a straight-laced suit, or a thuggish musclehead, Thad barked like a rebel warrior. Sin in Soul's Kitchen
- Now there were filets of flaky white stuff drowned in a red sauce.
- Dip a cotton bud into a lip balm, then twizzle it along your lips to get rid of flaky bits. Times, Sunday Times
- Q. My fingernails have become dry and flaky. The Sun
- This morning, I went to the local bakery to buy fartons (a local pastry, sort of a long thin flaky croissant-like thing with frosting on top, meant to be dunked in horchata) but they only had one left. Breakfast in Bed