English Dictionary

flaky

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfleɪkiː/

形容詞

くだけた表現 人物 無生物

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

日本語の意味

フレーク状である、または小さな緩んだ塊で構成されている / 小片や層状に剥がれ落ちる状態を示す / フレークのような、またはフレーク状の性質を持つ

The flaky crust of the pie crumbled as soon as I touched it.

そのパイの生地は薄片状で、触れた途端に崩れた。

意味（1）

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

意味（2）

(informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

I have noticed that when hustlers upgrade themselves to models (as distinguished from models who have never hustled) they tend to continue being flaky about appointments. On my last trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, I was stood up twice.

意味（3）

(informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.

Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.

flakier （ comparative ）

flakiest （ superlative ）