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flaky
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flaky - (Or "flakey") Subject to frequent lossage. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of - enough that you are tempted to try to use it - but fails frequently enough that the odds in favour of finishing what you start are low. Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy.


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Locally, those hand-made by R Martin & Son butchers of Crawcrook and Whickham in Gateshead, are packed with prime meat; the aroma is rich, the flavour is full and intense and the pastry golden and flakily explosive when drawn straight from the oven.
The gallery was started on La Cienega Boulevard in 1957 by the bombastic assemblagist Ed Kienholz and the flakily brilliant art historian Walter Hopps.
 
 
 
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