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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    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]