What does "woolgathering" mean?
Woolgathering: Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Additional senses
- 2.Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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