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 flaky ['flekɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 薄片的, 成片的, 薄而易剥落的

  1. Designating soil or minerals occurring in flaky layers.
    板状的标明片状层的土壤或矿物的
  2. I think he is flaky.
    (我觉得他靠不住哦。
  3. Sometimes mature skin can be dry and flaky.
    有时成熟的肌肤干燥而且容易剥落。


flaky
flakier, flakiest
[ adj ]
  1. made of or resembling flakes

  2. <adj.pert>
    flaky soap
  3. made of or easily forming flakes

  4. <adj.all>
  5. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

  6. <adj.all>
    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


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

What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires!
--Watts.

A flaky weight of winter's purest snows.
--Wordsworth.

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]

  1. The New York Times this week summed up the public perception: 'Mr Bush is out of touch, Mr Clinton is slick, Mr Perot is flaky.'
  2. "It's a flaky kind of year.
  3. The proposal makes clear that schools may leave asbestos materials in buildings unless they become "friable," meaning flaky and emitting tiny fibers that can cause cancer and other diseases of the lungs and other tissues.
  4. Ms. Tomlin has some nice moments as City Rose, a flaky flower child who has never felt at home in the Manhattan fast lane.
  5. "It has happened that the Rensselaer post office has sent me stuff just because it looks flaky and they don't know who else to send it to," says Gunderloy, a 30-year-old with black hair tied in a ponytail.
  6. Standard-issue portraits of flaky Californians, snobbish homosexuals and Neanderthal union leaders undermine the force of the author's perceptions.
  7. His record has shown a cautious and incremental liberalism, steadily expanding the size of government but avoiding anything flaky.
  8. And SNOW is no word for flaky rain.
  9. "They had a stereotypical view of artists as flaky and not necessarily having the skills the factory people had." Over the years, however, the workers and the artists began to appreciate each other's craft.
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