1. n. 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
2. n. A scale of a fish or similar animal
3. n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4. n. (informal) 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.
5. n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
6. v. To break or chip off in a flake.
The paint flaked off after only a year.
7. v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
8. v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers
The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
9. v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
10. n. (UK) Dogfish.
11. n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
12. n. (dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
13. n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
14. n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
15. n. (nautical) (alt form, fake, (turn or coil of cable or hawser))
spineless
1. adj. Sans épine.
2. adj. (Figuré) Lâche (couard).
spineless
1. adj. Having no spine.
2. adj. Cowardly; uncourageous.
unmanly
1. adj. Efféminé.
2. adj. Lâche.
unmanly
1. adj. (of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to something not human.
3. adj. (of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
4. adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable from a man.
5. adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.
6. adv. In a manner that is unmanly.
Craven
1. n. District d'Angleterre situé dans le comté du Yorkshire du Nord.
1. adj. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
2. n. A coward.
3. v. To make craven.
poltroon
1. n. (Désuet) Poltron.
poltroon
1. n. An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
2. adj. Cowardly.
yellow
1. adj. Jaune.
2. adj. (Royaume-Uni) (Politique) Qui supporte le parti libéral démocratique.
3. n. Jaune.
4. v. Jaunir.
yellow
1. adj. Having yellow as its colour.
2. adj. (informal) Lacking courage.
3. adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
4. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
5. adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
6. adj. (dated, US) High yellow.
7. adj. (politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
yellow constituencies
8. adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
the black-yellow coalition
9. n. (colorbox, yellow) The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
10. n. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
11. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
12. n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); cont
13. n. (sports) A yellow card.
14. v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
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