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If a container, a roof, a pipe, a boat, or a cup is leaky, it has a hole or a crack, so liquid or gas can pass through when you do not want it to. We say a leaky roof in the rain, a leaky bucket, a leaky pen in your pocket. It is an everyday, slightly informal word. In careful writing people often say leaking, or they say it has a leak. Though actually, when someone cannot keep a secret, English likes the verb leak more than the adjective leaky — a “leaky” person is possible, but it sounds a bit .
會漏的；漏水的
組成leak + -y. The -y makes an adjective meaning “having this quality”. From older leak, leake, leke (“leaky”), from Middle English leke, from Old English hlec, from Proto-Germanic *lekaz (“leaking; leaky”). By surface analysis, leak + -y.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leakyadj/ˈliːki/
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Having leaks; not fully sealed.
- The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
- The ceiling was so leaky that someone had to fix it.
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Tending to leak secrets or information.
- The spooks' argument against this is that the secret service would become leaky and demoralised […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。