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Webster 1913 Edition
Woolgathering
Wool′gathˊer-ing
,Adj.
Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Wool′gathˊer-ing
,Noun.
Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a
woolgathering
, as they say. Burton.
Definition 2024
woolgathering
woolgathering
See also: wool-gathering
English
Alternative forms
Noun
woolgathering (usually uncountable, plural woolgatherings)
- Gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
- Indulging in idle fancies or daydreams.
- 1911, H.G. Wells, "The Door in the Wall,"
- I had bad times after that—crying at night and woolgathering by day. For two terms I slackened and had bad reports.
- 1911, H.G. Wells, "The Door in the Wall,"