flakenoun [ C ]
uk/fleɪk/us/fleɪk/flake noun [ C ] (SMALL PIECE)
a small, thin piece of something, especially if it has come from a surface covered with a layer of something:
flakes of snow
soap flakes
This room needs decorating - flakes of paint keep coming off the walls.
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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flake noun [ C ] (PERSON)
US informal a person you cannot trust to remember things or to do what they promise, or someone who behaves in a strange way
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Of unsound mind
- around the bend idiom
- bat
- batshit
- battle-scarred
- beside
- disturbed
- fruitcake
- gaga
- loon
- lose
- mad
- maniac
- nutcase
- off your trolley idiom
- psychopath
- schizo
- screwy
- trolley
- unhinged
- wreck
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flakeverb [ I ]
uk/fleɪk/us/fleɪk/to come off a surface in small, thin pieces:
Patches of skin are starting to flake off.
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Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- break (sth) off
- breakage
- catch
- fall apart
- fragment
- fragmented
- fray
- frayed
- in ribbons idiom
- knacker
- pull sth apart
- rent
- rip
- shear
- split
- tear sth up
- torn
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Phrasal verb(s)
flake out