1 tending to break into small, thin pieces:
flaky pastry * dry flaky skin
2 (AmE, informal) (of a person) behaving in a strange or unusual way; tending to forget things:
He plays a flaky tourist visiting Europe.
flakiness noun [U]
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In this entry, flaky is tagged as adjective.
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