flak | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flack |
(noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack, flack catcher, flak catcher |
flake | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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(noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball |
(noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: snowflake |
(verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
(verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
(verb) form into flakes | - |
flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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(adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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(noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
flaky | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
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(adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
snowflake | (noun) white Arctic bunting | Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowbird |
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(noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: flake |
wheatflake | (noun) crisp flake made from wheat | - |
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