Leaky

Definition: Leaky

Leaky

Adjective

1. Permitting leaks or leakage; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system".

2. (of ships and boats) permitting leakage.

3. Permitting liquids to penetrate; "a tarpaulin too leaky to be of much use".

4. Used informally; unable to retain urine.

5. Prone to communicate confidential information.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "leaky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Leaky \Leak"y\, adjective. [Comparative Leakier; superlative Leakiest.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Leaky

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Crosswords: Leaky

A leaky rear latch on the listing bark lifted right up and the water rushed in. (references; author: unknown)

The Leaky Faucet (1959)

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Books

• Family: Living Under the Same Leaky Roof (reference)

• First Aid for Leaky Roofs (Fix-It Maps) (reference)

• Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics (reference)

• Life Under a Leaky Roof (reference)

• The Leaky Establishment (reference)

  (more book examples)

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In the day ancient leaky radiators sent up columns of steam, loose connecting rods hammered and pounded

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Health

Fix leaky faucets, pipes, or other sources of water. (references)

Dermal vessels become dilated, leaky, and accumulate excessive basement membrane-like material. (references)

Laser treatment is more effective if the leaky blood vessels have developed away from the fovea--the central part of the macula. (references)

Business

They fear that a faulty wire coupled with leaky pipes could result in fire hazards which would be disastrous in dry-wall and wood houses, but would have only minor structural effects in brick and mortar or concrete dwellings. (references)

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Expressions using "leaky": become leaky ♦ leaky heap ♦ leaky vessel. Additional references.

Albanian

që rrjedh (oozy), që pikon (oozy), që fut ujë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسرب (drain), ‏مخروم, ‏راشح (streaming). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спукан, който тече, който много дрънка, който пропуска, недискретен (indiscreet, keyhole), пробит (punctured). (various references)

Chinese 

漏 (Leaked, leaking). (various references)

Czech

zatékající, dìravý (holey). (various references)

Danish

leaky feeder-princippet i transmissionen blev opdaget ved et tilfaelde (the transmission liner or leaky feeder principle was first discovered by accident), blive laek (to get leaky, to spring a leak). (various references)

Dutch

lekkage oplopen (to get leaky, to spring a leak), lekkage krijgen (to get leaky, to spring a leak), lek worden (to get leaky, to spring a leak). (various references)

Farsi 

چکه کن , نشست کننده , سوراخ دار, رخنه دار. (various references)

Finnish

vuotava (leaking, running), ravistunut. (various references)

French

qui prend l'eau, qui fuit, qui fait eau, manque d'étanchéité (leaking). (various references)

German

leck (leak, leakage, seepage). (various references)

Greek 

στάζων (seepy), τρύπιοσ (having holes), διαρρέων (deliquescent). (various references)

Hungarian

lyukas (holey, hollow). (various references)

Italian

mancanza di tenuta (leaking, perviousness), che imbarca acqua, che cola, perde. (various references)

Manx

neuyeen, faarnagh (dripping, drippy, pervious). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakylay.(various references)

Portuguese

que vaza, que deixa passar, mal vedado, indiscreto (blabber, curious, forward, incautious, indiscreet, inquisitive, obtrusive, pushing), falta de estanqueidade (leaking, perviousness), falador (big mouth, blithering, cackler, circumlocutional, gabbler, gassy, hot-air, long-winded, loquacious, talkative, talker, talking). (various references)

Romanian

permeabil (permeable, pervious), neetanş, indiscret (indiscreet, inquisitive, tactless), care are scurgeri. (various references)

Russian 

имеющий течь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propustljiv (permeable), koji curi (oozy, running, runny). (various references)

Spanish

resquebrajado, que tiene vías de agua, que tiene goteras, que hace agua, muy sujeto a filtraciones, indiscreto (indiscreet, obtrusive, sieve, tactless, unadvised), falta de impermeabilización (leaking, perviousness), defectuoso (broken, defect, defective, deficient, erroneous, faulty, flawed, imperfect, incomplete, incorrect, lame, unsound, wanting), agujereado (holey). (various references)

Swedish

läckande (leakage). (various references)

Thai

รั่ว (leak). (various references)

Turkish

sızdıran (oozy), sızan. (various references)

Ukrainian

що тече, нещільний (lax), балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có lỗ rò (aleak), có lỗ hở, có kẽ hở (intersticed, lacunal, lacunose), có chỗ thủng hay để lộ bí mật hay đái rắt. (various references)

Welsh

anniddos (comfortless). (various references)

Misspellings

"Leaky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleaky, deaky, eaukay, Eeky, elake, Eliakim, eliki, Elky, Lakya, lasky, leac, leacj, leack, leacky, leapy, leazy, Lebak, lecky, leeki, leeky, lenky, lepak, Leski, leuk, levak, Liekkio, loeak, looky, reaky, teaky, Uegaki, Zekai. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alky, kale, lake, laky, leak, yelk.

-2 letters: ale, aye, elk, kae, kay, kea, key, lay, lea, lek, ley, lye, yak, yea.

-3 letters: ae, al, ay, el, ka, la, ya, ye.

+1 letter: alkyne, flakey, kayles, lackey, weakly.

+2 letters: alkynes, bleakly, lackeys, leakily, nakedly, raylike.

+3 letters: alkylate, ankylose, bankerly, claylike, creakily, eyestalk, flackery, freakily, kaleyard, kielbasy, lackeyed, ladylike, latchkey, malarkey, markedly, playlike, quaylike, sneakily, valkyrie, walkyrie, yarmelke, yarmulke.

+4 letters: alkylated, alkylates, ankylosed, ankyloses, eyestalks, fairylike, jaywalked, jaywalker, kaleyards, lackeying, latchkeys, malarkeys, playmaker, rakehelly, skylarked, skylarker, valkyries, wakefully, walkyries, yarmelkes, yarmulkes.