flake

  • 41flake — phony, not real    The salesman was a flake. What he said was phony …

    English idioms

  • 42flake —    1. American    an eccentric or strange person    Of uncertain derivation, although there are plenty of theories to choose from. Dr Johnson gives Any thing that appears loosely held together , and the imagery of disintegration is common in… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 43flake — flake1 noun 1》 a small, flat, very thin piece of something.     ↘Archaeology a piece of hard stone chipped off for use as a tool. 2》 a snowflake. 3》 N. Amer. informal a crazy or eccentric person. verb 1》 come away from a surface in flakes. 2》… …

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  • 44flake — n 1. scale, scurf, floe, floccule; peel, pellicle, membrane, skin; chip, shaving; snowflake, snow crystal, crystal. v 2. peel, peel off, scale, scale or flake off, desquamate, exfoliate …

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  • 45flake — 1. noun a flake of paint Syn: sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, chip, fragment, scrap, shred 2. verb the paint was flaking off Syn: peel (off), chip, blister, come off …

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  • 46flake — n. a silly, giddy person. She s a total flake, so don t count on her to remember …

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  • 47Flake knife — Flake Flake (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off, split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. {Flag} a flat stone.] 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 48Flake stand — Flake Flake (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off, split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. {Flag} a flat stone.] 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 49Flake white — Flake Flake (fl[=a]k), n. [Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off, split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. {Flag} a flat stone.] 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 50Flake (KDE) — Flake is a new programming library that will be used in the upcoming KOffice 2 series. Flake will provide the basic concept of a shape . To the end user a shape will appear as some piece of content like an image or a text. A shape can be in any… …

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