The Only Use of
whimsical
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Certainly one of the persons about whom Maggie's fears were furthest from troubling themselves was her aunt Pullet, on whom, seeing that she did not live in St. Ogg's, and was neither sharp-eyed nor sharp-tempered, it would surely have been quite whimsical of them to fix rather than on aunt Glegg.†
Chpt 5.5whimsical = playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational