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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flaky \Flak"y\, a. Consisting of flakes or of small loose masses; lying, or cleaving off in flakes or layers; flakelike From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flaky adj 1: made of or easily forming flakes [syn: {flakey}] 2: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: {bizarre}, {eccentric}, {freakish}, {freaky}, {outlandish}, {outre}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: flaky adj (var sp `flakey') Subject to frequent {lossage}. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of -- enough that you are tempted to try to use it -- but fails frequently enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you start are low Commonwealth hackish prefers {dodgy} or {wonky}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: flaky (Or "flakey") Subject to frequent {lossage}. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of - enough that you are tempted to try to use it - but fails frequently enough that the odds in favour of finishing what you start are low Commonwealth hackish prefers {dodgy}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-01-05)
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