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

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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"; "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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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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