flake
Meaning of flake
- a small, flat, very thin piece of something, typically one which has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece.
he licked the flakes of croissant off his finger
- a crazy or eccentric person.
- come or fall away from a surface in flakes.
the paint had been flaking off for years
- separate (food) into flakes or thin pieces.
flake the fish
- fail to keep an appointment or fulfil a commitment, especially with little or no advance notice.
a real friend won't ever flake on you
twice, you had plans, and both times you flaked
Middle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag2 and flaw1.
noun
a rack or shelf for storing or drying food such as fish.
Middle English (denoting a wicker hurdle): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Old Norse flaki, fleki ‘wicker shield’ and Danish flage ‘hurdle’.
verb- fall asleep; drop from exhaustion.
he got back in time to flake out until morning
late 15th century (in the senses ‘become languid’ and (of a garment) ‘fall in folds’): variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag4. The current sense dates from the 1940s.
noun
a single turn of a coiled rope or hawser.
verb- lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling.
a cable had to be flaked out
early 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense.
Information about flake
- The plural form of flake is: flakes.
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Hyphenation of flake
flake
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- flake is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
flake synonyms
Meaning snowflake:
Meaning eccentric:
Meaning bit:
Meaning peel off:
Meaning a small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece:
Meaning a thin, light, crisp biscuit, especially one of a kind eaten with ice cream:
Meaning a thin strip cut off a surface:
Meaning trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges:
Meaning remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):
Meaning a piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges:
Meaning a thick, dry flake of skin:
Meaning a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit:
Meaning a small hard particle of a substance such as salt or sand:
Meaning a tiny spot:
Meaning a game played with a heap of small rods of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others:
Meaning a small part broken off or separated from something:
Meaning a strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger:
Meaning a minute portion of matter:
Meaning a splinter or sliver of wood:
Meaning a splinter or chip, especially of rock:
Meaning a thin layer, plate, or scale of sedimentary rock, organic tissue, or other material:
Meaning form blisters on the skin or other surface:
Meaning (of a layer of cells, e.g. of the skin) come off in scales or flakes:
Meaning (of a material) be shed from a surface in scales or layers:
Meaning (of a structure) suddenly fall down or give way:
Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:
Meaning lose consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain:
Meaning faint, especially from extreme emotion:
Translation of flake
- Spanish: parte, pedazo, fragmento, hojuela, copo
- French: bout, morceau, fragment
- Italian: pezzetto, frammento
- German: Splitter, Stückchen, Stück
- Portuguese: fragmento
Anagrams of flake
Words that rhyme with flake
Lake, lake, Alake, Blake, blake, clake, Woodlake, cornflake, snowflake, sootflake, wheatflake, Kinglake, inlake, splake, uplake, interlake, Grayslake, aslake, forslake, slake, Eastlake, Mortlake, mortlake, Hoylake