flaky
Adjective
- Composed of or resembling flakes; eccentric or unreliable.
- made of or resembling flakes
- "flaky soap"
Adjective Satellite
- made of or easily forming flakes
- conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Adj
- Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
- Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
- Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
Examples
- I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.
- The old Scrabble tiles sometimes felt FLAKY, shedding small pieces of their letter.
Origin / Etymology
From flake + -y.
Scrabble Score: 15
flaky: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflaky: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flaky: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
flaky: valid Words With Friends Word