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woolgathering
/ ˈwʊlˌɡæðərɪŋ /
noun
- idle or absent-minded indulgence in fantasy; daydreaming
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Derived Forms
- ˈwoolˌgatherer, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of woolgathering1
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Example Sentences
His interest in music—or rather, at first, in the free and glamorous lives of musicians—began with much posing and woolgathering.
Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
I trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
But surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
Woolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
Amid that universal blaze and downright pour of stifling heat, his mind was gone woolgathering back into the old New Forest.
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