FLAKY
What does "FLAKY" mean?
Tending to break into thin flakes, or (informally) unreliable and eccentric.
Meanings
- Made of or breaking easily into thin, light layers. The croissant was warm and beautifully flaky.
- Unreliable, forgetful, or behaving unpredictably. Don't lend him the car; he's pretty flaky about returning things. informal
- Producing inconsistent results, especially of a test or system in software. The CI pipeline keeps failing on a flaky test. technical
Word origin
From 'flake' (probably of Scandinavian origin) plus the adjective suffix '-y'; the 'unreliable person' sense is American slang from the mid-20th century.
Remember it
FLAKY pastry and a FLAKY friend both fall apart when you lean on them.
A little poem
The pastry earns its praise by falling clean apart;
the friend who does the same wins no one's heart.
couplet
Wordplay
- My baker is flaky in the best way and my cousin is flaky in the worst - one makes croissants, the other breaks plans.
What it teaches
The same texture we prize in a pastry we forgive in no one we are counting on.
Quick facts
What does FLAKY mean?
Tending to break into thin flakes, or (informally) unreliable and eccentric.
Is FLAKY a valid word?
Yes — FLAKY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FLAKY?
FLAKY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does FLAKY come from?
From 'flake' (probably of Scandinavian origin) plus the adjective suffix '-y'; the 'unreliable person' sense is American slang from the mid-20th century.
What can FLAKY teach us?
The same texture we prize in a pastry we forgive in no one we are counting on.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.