Associations to the word «Flaky»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
FLAKY, adjective. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
FLAKY, adjective. (informal) (of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
FLAKY, adjective. (informal) (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
FLAKY PASTRY, noun. A form of pastry in which the fat (shortening) is rolled into the dough to produce a flaky texture
Dictionary definition
FLAKY, adjective. Made of or resembling flakes; "flaky soap".
FLAKY, adjective. Made of or easily forming flakes.
FLAKY, adjective. 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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.