flakyadjective
also flakey uk/ˈfleɪ.ki/us/ˈfleɪ.ki/flaky adjective (IN SMALL PIECES)
coming off easily in small, flat, thin pieces:
dry, flaky skin
a flaky scalp
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Fragile and breakable
- breakable
- brittle
- crumbly
- delicacy
- delicate
- dodgy
- fissile
- flimsy
- fragile
- frail
- friable
- ramshackle
- rickety
- tenuous
flaky adjective (PERSON)
mainly US informal behaving in a way that is not responsible or expected:
The central character of the play is a flaky neurotic.
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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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