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English
Etymology
From wool + gathering.
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Noun
woolgathering (usually uncountable, plural woolgatherings)
- The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
- Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.
1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 109 (1968 edition):[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.
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