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Definition flake

Etymology 1

From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English *flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flak? (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”).

Noun

flake (plural flakes)

1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
3. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

Verb

flake (third-person singular simple present flakes, present participle flaking, simple past and past participle flaked)

1. To break or chip off in a flake.
2. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
3. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers
4. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).

Etymology 2

A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.

Noun

flake (uncountable)

1. (Britain) Dogfish.
2. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.

Etymology 3

Compare Icelandic flaki?, fleki?, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak.

Noun

flake (plural flakes)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A paling; a hurdle.
2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
3. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
4. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)

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