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noun
Synonym of flake.
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: obsolete except UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of flake.
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: obsolete except UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: chip, splinter, bit, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of flake.
A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: obsolete except UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: flake
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of fleck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fleck
Antonyms: none provided
History
A variant of flake (noun, verb).
A variant of fleck (verb).
