Crossword clues for woolgathering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.
--Burton.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc. 2 Indulging in idle fancies or daydreams. n. 1 gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc. 2 Indulging in idle fancies or daydreams.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Woolgathering is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1992.
Usage examples of "woolgathering".
She also had a way of lunging predatorily into the classroom and rapping the knuckles of any girl who had been whispering, making faces at the teachers, passing notes, doodling, woolgathering, fidgeting, scratching, nose-picking, sighing, or slumping.
A good microbe hunter, he was much more than a mere woolgathering searcher, much more than a mere man of science.