Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryConsisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. · Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. · Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
Etymology tree English flake Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flaky From flake + -y.
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