2 BREAK to break fish or another food into small thin pieces, or to break in this way Poach the fish until it flakes easily.
Flake meaning skin#
Use a moisturising cream to stop your skin flaking. flake flake 2 verb 1 ( also flake off ) BREAK to break off in small thin pieces The paint is beginning to flake off.
He's such a flake, but he's fun to work with.This is the first time that a number of senators have actually stood up, a number of Senators from the President's party and said,' No, Jeff Flake can't do that, and we're going to pass legislation to rein this in,' and so that is our prerogative, that's what we should be doing, that's what we should have been doing sooner than now.Īnd you treated my woman to a flake of your life/ And when she came back she was nobody's wife.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English flake flake 1 / fleɪk / noun 1 PIECE a small thin piece that breaks away easily from something else flake of flakes of snow chocolate flakes → snowflake 2 American English informal CRAZY someone who seems strange or who often forgets things SYN space cadet Examples from the Corpus flake There’s an attack on the center, in both parties, on business-as-usual, jeff Flake, in my state, decided not to run again, Jeff Flake sees no way Jeff Flake can fight against this anti-establishment, anti-status-quo.
Pout, Daniel Pout, thinks Democratic Socialists of America might someday have a chance at building enough support to run candidates of Democratic Socialists of America own, under the Socialist Party banner. Flake’s call for a non-partisan FBI investigation into the allegations about Brett Kavanaugh – which I’ve been pressing for. Who did Senate Republicans call when they couldn't get FBI Director Chris Wray on the phone last week, as they were trying to allay Jeff Flake's fears about the investigation ? Rod Rosenstein. Mold the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow. To form in flakes or bodies loosely connected.įrom the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, The flakes of his tough flesh so firmly bound,Ī labourer in his left hand holding the head of the centerpin, and with his right drawing about the beam and teeth, which cut and tore away great flakes of the metal, ’till it received the perfect form the teeth would make. Upon throwing in a stone the water boils for a considerable time, and at the same time are seen little flakes of scurf rising up. Small drops of a misling rain, descending through a freezing air, do each of them shoot into one of those figured icicles which, being ruffled by the wind, in their fall are broken, and clustered together into small parcels, which we call flakes of snow. The earth is sometimes covered with snow two or three feet deep, made up only of little flakes or pieces of ice. Him all amaz’d, and almost made affear’d. O crimson circles, like red flakes in the element, when the weather is hottest.Ī flake of fire, that flushing in his beard, Any thing that appears loosely held together, like a flock of wool.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: floccus, Latin.