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Verb: flake  fleyk
  1. Form into flakes
    "The substances started to flake"
     
  2. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes
     
  3. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces
    - peel off, peel, flake off
Noun: flake  fleyk
  1. A crystal of snow
    - snowflake
     
  2. A person with an unusual or odd personality
    - eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek, dag [Austral, NZ]
     
  3. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole
    - bit, chip, fleck, scrap

Derived forms: flaked, flaking, flakes

See also: flaky

Type of: anomaly, break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off, cover, crystal, form, fragment, unusual person

Part of: snow, snowfall

Encyclopedia: Flake Flake, Ontario