Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

* 2011 , Jim Perrin, The Guardian , 28 May 2011:

A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

Adjective

(er)

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

(informal, of a, person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

Some of his friends were flaky .

(informal, of a, thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport citation

, passage=Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.}}

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