Flake

Noun

 * 1) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
 * 2)  A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
 * 3)  A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
 * She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.

Verb

 * 1) To break or chip off in a flake.
 * The paint flaked off after only a year.
 * 1)  To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
 * He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
 * 1)  To store an item such as rope in layers
 * The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
 * 1)  to hit (another person).

Noun

 * 1)  dogfish
 * 2)  The meat of the gummy shark.

Thesaurus
aliene, arrange in layers, avalanche, band, bar, bedlamite, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bit, blizzard, blotch, borderline case, character, check, checker, chip, collapse, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, crystal, dandruff, dapple, delaminate, dement, demoniac, desquamate, dot, driven snow, eccentric, energumen, erratic, exfoliate, fanatic, flake off, fleck, floccule, flocculus, flock, flurry, fou, fragment, freak, freckle, granular snow, harlequin, idiot, igloo, iris, keel over, kook, lamina, laminate, lay down, lay up, layer, loon, loony, lunatic, maculate, madman, maniac, mantle of snow, marble, marbleize, meshuggenah, mogul, motley, mottle, noncompos, nonconformist, nut, oddball, paring, particle, pass out, pepper, phrenetic, piece, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, raving lunatic, recluse, scale, scale off, scrap, screwball, scurf, shaving, sliver, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, strange duck, stratify, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tuft, variegate, vein, wafer, weirdo, wet snow

Etymology 1
From flake:, from  *undefined:, from  flak:, from, from. Cognate with flak:,  flak:,  flage:,  Flocke:,  vlak:,  plaga:.

Etymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小片, 薄片
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, schilfer
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: floco
 * Russian: стружка, осколок, чешуйка,
 * Spanish:, , copa, copo
 * Swedish: flinga, flaga
 * Turkish: pul
 * Turkish: pul


 * French:


 * Spanish:


 * French:

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 剝落, 剥落
 * Dutch: schilferen, afschilferen


 * Greek: απολεπίζω,
 * Spanish: ,