flaky

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
2. adjective Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
3. adjective Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.

   I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.

Similar words

outre tender flakey eccentric freaky freakish bizarre outlandish unconventional insane

Often followed by

and pastry skin or crust pie precipitate particles white

Word family

flakey flakier flakiest