[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flaky \flak"y\, a.
   1. consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or
      cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
      1913 webster

            what showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires
                                                  --watts.
      1913 webster

            a flaky weight of winter's purest snows.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons.
      pjc

   3. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; --
      of behavior.
      pjc

   4. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery,
      especially electronic devices. "a flaky computer board."
      pjc

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"; "his off-the-wall
        antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and
        affected stage antics" syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish,
         freaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre
     also: flakiest, flakier
see also:
flakey bizarre eccentric freakish freaky off-the-wall 
outlandish outre flakiest flakier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

173 moby thesaurus words for "flaky":
   abnormal, anomalous, apish, arbitrary, asinine, asperous, balmy,
   bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted,
   bonkers, brainless, branny, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs,
   capricious, chalklike, chalky, cockeyed, comminute, comminuted,
   crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, credulous, crotchety,
   crushed, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, detrital, detrited, deviant,
   deviative, different, dippy, disintegrated, divergent, dizzy,
   doting, dotty, dumb, dusty, eccentric, efflorescent, erratic,
   exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, farinaceous,
   fatuitous, fatuous, fey, fine, flipped, flocculent, floury, fond,
   fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey,
   fruity, fuddled, funny, furfuraceous, futile, gaga, gone to dust,
   goofy, grated, ground, gulled, harebrained, haywire, humorsome,
   idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, impalpable, inane,
   inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky,
   kooky, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, loony, loopy, mad,
   maggoty, maudlin, mealy, milled, moody, moronic, motiveless,
   notional, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track,
   off the wall, peculiar, pestled, petulant, potty, powdered,
   powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, queer, quirky,
   reduced to powder, round the bend, sappy, scabby, scabious,
   scabrous, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, screwball, screwballs,
   screwy, scurfy, senseless, sentimental, sharded, shredded, silly,
   singular, slaphappy, squamous, strange, stupid, temperamental,
   thoughtless, triturated, twisted, unconventional, unnatural,
   unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton,
   wayward, wet, whimsical, witless

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
lossage dodgy wonky 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
lossage dodgy jargon file 

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