woolgathering
nounEtymology From wool + gathering.
1
Usually The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
2
Usually Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.
- [while fishing] Alone with my tin of bait and my wool-gatherings, I was in a world of my own, localized and satisfying as such world always are.1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 109 (1968 edition):
- Derived terms
- woolgather
- Related terms
- wool-gather