Flaky \Flak"y\, a.
1. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or
cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
[1913 Webster]
What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires!
--Watts.
[1913 Webster]
A flaky weight of winter's purest snows.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
2. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
[PJC]
3. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; --
of behavior.
[PJC]
4. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery,
especially electronic devices. "a flaky computer board."
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flaky
adj 1: made of or easily forming flakes [syn: flakey]
2: 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, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]
[also: flakiest, flakier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaky":
abnormal, anomalous, apish, arbitrary, asinine, asperous, balmy,
bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted,
bonkers, brainless, branny, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs,
capricious, chalklike, chalky, cockeyed, comminute, comminuted,
crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, credulous, crotchety,
crushed, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, detrital, detrited, deviant,
deviative, different, dippy, disintegrated, divergent, dizzy,
doting, dotty, dumb, dusty, eccentric, efflorescent, erratic,
exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, farinaceous,
fatuitous, fatuous, fey, fine, flipped, flocculent, floury, fond,
fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey,
fruity, fuddled, funny, furfuraceous, futile, gaga, gone to dust,
goofy, grated, ground, gulled, harebrained, haywire, humorsome,
idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, impalpable, inane,
inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky,
kooky, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, loony, loopy, mad,
maggoty, maudlin, mealy, milled, moody, moronic, motiveless,
notional, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track,
off the wall, peculiar, pestled, petulant, potty, powdered,
powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, queer, quirky,
reduced to powder, round the bend, sappy, scabby, scabious,
scabrous, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, screwball, screwballs,
screwy, scurfy, senseless, sentimental, sharded, shredded, silly,
singular, slaphappy, squamous, strange, stupid, temperamental,
thoughtless, triturated, twisted, unconventional, unnatural,
unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton,
wayward, wet, whimsical, witless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
flaky adj. (var sp. `flakey') Subject to frequent lossage. This use
is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a
person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky
is working, sort of -- enough that you are tempted to try to use it --
but fails frequently enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you
start are low. Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy or wonky.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
flaky
(Or "flakey") Subject to frequent lossage. This use is of
course related to the common slang use of the word to describe
a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system
that is flaky is working, sort of - enough that you are
tempted to try to use it - but fails frequently enough that
the odds in favour of finishing what you start are low.
Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy.
[{Jargon File]
(1996-01-05)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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