Someone who is noncommittal or agrees to everything but then never shows up and therein flaky. So flaky to the point of being almost professional in the practice of it. A professional flaky person. Hence, flake-up artist.
e.g.
Ben: "Liv! We haven't met up in ages!! Fancy meeting up this weekend? I'll be in your neck of the woods any how so we should deffo meet up for a crafty drink! You down?"
Liv: OMG! Ben!!! YES. We gotta do this! Bell me when your here and I'll come down!
(24 Hours passes and Ben arrives at agreed location)
Ben: "Hey Liv, I've just arrived! Where abouts are you?
A contraction of "flare-up" and "flaming" (as in homosexual). Briefly becoming very attracted to the same sex, perhaps only while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In other words, a straight person having a gay moment, or a gay person having an EXTRA-gay moment.
Girl A: "I thought Emma was here with Dave."
Girl B: "She is."
Girl A: "Then why is her tongue down Megan's throat?"
Girl B: "Oops - looks like another flame-up. She had one of those at last year's sorority mixer."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)