Meanings (ES + gloss)
ampo • copa • copo • escama • hojuela
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
flakes of dandruff
lasca
A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
faltón • malqueda
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.
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…
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
descamar • descarapelar
To break or chip off in a flake.
The paint flaked off after only a year.
acobardarse • arrepentirse • chasquear • esfumarse • largarse • mamarse • planchar • plantar • rajarse • retractarse
To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.