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flake

1  [fleyk] noun, verb, flaked, flak⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a small, flat, thin piece, esp. one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass: flakes of old paint.
2. any small piece or mass: a flake of snow.
3. a stratum or layer.
4. Slang. an eccentric person; screwball.
5. Slang. cocaine.
6. a usually broad, often irregular piece of stone struck from a larger core and sometimes retouched to form a flake tool.
–verb (used without object)
7. to peel off or separate in flakes.
8. to fall in flakes, as snow.
–verb (used with object)
9. to remove in flakes.
10. to break flakes or chips from; break into flakes: to flake fish for a casserole.
11. to cover with or as if with flakes.
12. to form into flakes.
Origin:
1350–1400; (n.) ME; akin to OE flac- in flacox flying (said of arrows), ON flakka to rove, wander, MD vlacken to flutter; (in def. 4) by back formation from flaky, in sense “eccentric, odd”; (v.) late ME: to fall in flakes, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
flakeless, adjective
flaker, noun

flake

3  [fleyk] noun, verb, flaked, flak⋅ing. Nautical
–noun
1. fake 2 (defs. 1, 2).
–verb (used with object)
2. fake 2 (def. 3).
3. to lower (a fore-and-aft sail) so as to drape the sail equally on both sides over its boom.
Origin:
1620–30; appar. var. of fake 2

flake

4  [fleyk]
–verb, flaked, flak⋅ing. flake out, Slang.
to fall asleep; take a nap.
Origin:
1935–40; perh. expressive var. of flag 3 ; cf. Brit. dial. flack to hang loosely, flap

fake

2  [feyk] verb, faked, fak⋅ing, noun Nautical
–verb (used with object)
1. to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often fol. by down).
–noun
2. any complete turn of a rope that has been faked down.
3. any of the various ways in which a rope may be faked down.
Also, flake.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME faken to coil (a rope), of obscure orig.
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flake 1   (flāk)   
n.  
  1. A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.
  2. Archaeology A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.
  3. A small piece; a bit.
  4. A small crystalline bit of snow.
  5. Slang A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball.
  6. Slang Cocaine.
v.   flaked, flak·ing, flakes

v.   tr.
  1. To remove a flake or flakes from; chip.
  2. To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes.
v.   intr.
To come off in flat thin pieces or layers; chip off.
Phrasal Verb(s):
flake out Slang
  1. To fall asleep or collapse from fatigue or exhaustion.
  2. To act in an odd or eccentric manner.
  3. To lose interest or nerve.

[Middle English; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.]
flak'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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