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adjective

Leaky adj. (compar. leakier; superl. leakiest)

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.

Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close. (Colloq.)

(Genetics) Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; as, substitution mutations are sometimes leaky; of mutations.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Leaky" Quotes from Famous Books

... down beside the pile, being very careful to hold her bag of sugar leaky-side up, and watched and watched. If you have ever seen ants moving grains of sugar you know how very interesting it is and you won't wonder that she forgot all about taking the parcel home to her mother. And there is ...

— Mary Jane: Her Book • Clara Ingram Judson

... the Building News, relates an unaccountable mysterious blistering in a leaky house, where the rainwater came from above on a painted wood wall, blistering the paint in streaks and filled at the lower ends with water, which no doubt was caused by the water soaking the wood at the upper ends where there was no paint, and following it down through the fibers, pushed ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various

... I was, gassin' away merry about what Old Hickory wanted kept a dead secret. But I usually do tell things to Vee. She ain't one of the leaky kind. And Auntie don't go out much. Besides, who'd think of an old girl like that ever bein' interested in such wild back-number stuff? ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... exceedingly infirm and worn out, the master found it impossible to effect the repairs which his vessel wanted at either of those places, and had touched at Otaheite for such refreshment as the crew required, determining to endeavour in their very leaky condition to reach this port, where they hoped to receive such assistance as might enable them ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins

... black cat hunted continually. Across its ceiling ran great beams, whereof the interlacing ends, among which sharp draughts whistled, lost themselves in gloom, while, with an endless and exasperating sound, as of a knuckle upon a board, the water dripped from the leaky roof. ...

— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard

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