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Woolgathering   Listen
noun
Woolgathering  n.  Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. "His wits were a woolgathering, as they say."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Woolgathering" Quotes from Famous Books



... and farfetched constructions have been put by the commentators upon this very homely sentence. As long as the question was, whether their wits should have licence to go a-woolgathering or no, one could feel no great concern to interfere: but it appears high time to come to Shakspeare's rescue, when MR. COLLIER'S "clever" old commentator, with some little variation in the letters, and not much less in the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various



Words linked to "Woolgathering" :   dreaming, inattentive, moony, woolgather, dreamy, dream



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