flake
21flake — 1. n. a person who acts silly or giddy. □ Sally is such a flake! □ Who’s the flake in the plaid pants? 2. n. a medicinal form of crystallized cocaine. (Drugs. Similar o crack.) □ Where can I get some flake around here? …
22flake — I. noun Etymology: Middle English; akin to Old English flacor flying (of arrows), Old Norse flakna to flake off, split Date: 14th century 1. a small loose mass or bit < flakes of snow > 2. a thin flattened piece or layer ; chip 3. slang …
23flake — I. /fleɪk / (say flayk) noun 1. a small, flat, thin piece of anything. 2. a small, detached piece or mass: a flake of cloud. 3. a stratum or layer. 4. Colloquial a strange or bizarre person; an unconventional person. 5. Colloquial a person who… …
24flake — 1. noun /fleɪk/ a) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish. She makes pleasant conversation, but shes kind of a flake when it comes time fo …
25Flake — Fla|ke, die; , n [mniederd. vlake, wohl verw. mit ↑ flechten] (nordd.): geflochtene [Schutz]wand; Flechtwerk; Netz. * * * Flake, Otto, Pseudonym Leo F. Kọtta, Schriftsteller, * Metz 29. 10. 1880, ✝ …
26flake — 1 noun (countable + of) 1 a very small flat thin piece that breaks away easily from something else: soap flakes see also: snowflake 2 AmE informal someone who seems crazy 2 verb 1 (I) also flake off to break off in small thin pieces: The paint is …
27flake — [fleɪk] noun [C] I a small flat piece of something II verb [I] flake [fleɪk]; ˌflake ˈoff to come off a surface in small flat pieces Her skin was itchy and beginning to flake.[/ex] …
28flake — I [[t]fleɪk[/t]] n. v. flaked, flak•ing 1) a small, flat, thin piece, esp. one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass 2) any small piece or mass 3) a stratum or layer 4) cvb sts Slang. an eccentric person; screwball 5) cvb… …
29flake — [14] Flake appears to go back to a prehistoric Germanic source which denoted the splitting of rocks into strata. This was *flak , a variant of which produced English flaw [14] (which originally meant ‘flake’), the second syllable of whitlow [14]… …
30flake — I 1. noun 1) flakes of pastry Syn: sliver, wafer, shaving, paring; chip, scale; fragment, scrap, shred; technical lamina 2) informal Geoff can be such a flake Syn: ditz …
