unreliable, silly person, one should not expect much from this type. Submitted by Geoffrey from San Francisco, CA, USA on. When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. flake noun a person who does not show up or call or do whatever you were supposed to be.
He said hed come and help, but he flaked. fail to follow through on something (usually followed by out): We had a 3 o’clock appointment, but he flaked on me an hour before. to back out of a plan, promise, engagement, agreement, etc.
A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only. A Flake is someone who can think of any excuse not to show up to an event. The current dictionary form of the word is fake, a word that I have never heard used with this meaning. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, Doubleday, pages 516-517:Ī flake is the sailor's term for a turn in an ordinary coil, or for a complete tier in a flat coil, as a French or Flemish flake. 1634, Nathaniel Boteler, Boteler's Dialogues:Īdmiral: What mean you by flakes? Captain: They are only those several circles or rounds of the roapes or cables, that are quoiled up round.A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.The center encouraged its devotees to wear lucky red strings around one wrist, which Neumann did for quite a while, until a more sober-minded business person warned him to lose the item or risk confirming his burgeoning reputation as a flake.
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