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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  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)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]


  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  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]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     a.
     1 Consisting of flake or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving
  off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
     2 (lb en informal of a person) unreliable; likely to make plans with
  others but then abandon those plans.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     a.
     1 Consisting of flake or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving
  off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
     2 (lb en informal of a person) unreliable; likely to make plans with
  others but then abandon those plans.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     a.
     1 Consisting of flake or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving
  off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
     2 (lb en informal of a person) unreliable; likely to make plans with
  others but then abandon those plans.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     a.
     1 Consisting of flake or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving
  off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
     2 (lb en informal of a person) unreliable; likely to make plans with
  others but then abandon those plans.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     Englanti a.
     1 hiutaleinen, hiutalemainen
     2 hilseilevä, lohkeileva, irtoileva
     3 (kuva) erikoinen, omalaatuinen, hullu
     4 (yhteys puhekieltä k=en) epäluotettava, oikukas, oikutteleva;
  sellainen, joka peruu viime hetkellä

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  flaky
     Engelska a.
     1 flagig, skivig
     2 (tagg vardagligt språk=en) opålitlig
     3 (tagg vardagligt språk=en) som inte anses normal, tokig, knäpp,
  stollig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Flaky /flˈeɪki/
  مقشّر

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  flaky //ˈfleɪkiː// 
  люспест
  Consisting of flakes; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes; flakelike

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  flaky /flˈeɪki/ 
  vločkovitý