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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Woolgathering

· Wool·gath·er·ing · IPA
01 a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
  1. 1.
    Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
02 n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
  1. 1.
    Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
    “His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.” — Burton.