- 1tending to break into small, thin pieces flaky pastry dry flaky skin
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- 2(informal) (of a person) behaving in a strange or unusual way; tending to forget things He plays a flaky tourist visiting Europe.
NAmE//ˈfleɪkinəs//
noun [uncountable]See flaky in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: flaky