flake
31flake — [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]… …
32flake — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a a small thin light piece of snow. b a similar piece of another material. 2 a thin broad piece of material peeled or split off. 3 Archaeol. a piece of hard stone chipped off and used as a tool. 4 a natural division of the flesh… …
33flake — 1) an outdoor platform or rack for drying fish, often of spruce boughs on a framework of poles in North America. The boughs stopped the fish from being burned by the wooden frame or longers. Some fish were laid directly on beach rocks, a bawn.… …
34flake — verb Flake is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑paint …
35flake — Synonyms and related words: aliene, arrange in layers, avalanche, band, bar, bedlamite, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bit, blizzard, blotch, borderline case, character, check, checker, chip, collapse, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, crystal,… …
36flake — n An oddball, eccentric. Why did you ask Ahmed to take notes for you? He s the biggest flake I know. 1960s …
37flake — A (perhaps unconsciously) thoughtless and inconsiderate person He s a flake. OR He flaked on me …
38flake — A (perhaps unconsciously) thoughtless and inconsiderate person He s a flake. OR He flaked on me …
39flake — • flakeball • flake noun slang drug culture A disjointed, or flaky person, who is forgetful and incoherent, as if under the influence of narcotics. Hermione is a regular flakeball. Compare: spaced out …
40flake — n 1. American an eccentric or crazy per son. A later formation from flaky. The ori gin is obscure. ► Marx stands out as refreshingly creative and literate among a batch of flakes. (Robert Conquest, Independent, 27 Jan uary 1989) 2. Australian… …
