usage: "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
Likely to perform unpredictably."erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute- Osbert Lancaster
(n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; especially, a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.