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    wool·gath·er·ing
    [ˈwo͝olˌɡaT͟H(ə)riNG]
    noun
    wool-gathering (noun) · woolgathering (noun)
    1. indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absentmindedness:
      "he wanted to be free to indulge his woolgathering"
    wool·gath·er
    [ˈwo͝olˌɡaT͟Hər]
    verb
    woolgathering (present participle)
    1. indulge in aimless thoughts or daydreams:
      "now wasn't the time to wool-gather about her love life"
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    noun
    1. indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absentmindedness:
      daydreaming
      dreaming
      reverie
      musing
      abstraction
      preoccupation
      distraction
      inattention
      absentmindedness
      forgetfulness
      building castles in the air
      building castles in Spain
      brown study
      Opposite:
      concentration
      attentiveness
     

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  2. Indulging in idle fancies and daydreaming
    intr.v.wool·gath·ered, wool·gath·er·ing, wool·gath·ers To engage in fanciful daydreaming. [From the practice of wandering areas where sheep graze to gather tufts of wool caught on vegetation.]

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    wool•gath•er•ing (wŏŏl′ gaᵺ′ər ing), n. indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school. gathering of the tufts of wool shed by sheep and caught on bushes.

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    Woolgathering once literally referred to the act of gathering loose tufts of wool that had gotten caught on bushes and fences as sheep passed by.

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    Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of WOOLGATHER is to engage in woolgathering.

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    Did you know about woolgathering?
    Did you know? Did you know? Woolgathering once literally referred to the act of gathering loose tufts of wool that had gotten caught on bushes and fences as sheep passed by. As you might imagine, woolgathering was not the most profitable of enterprises; its practitioners must have seemed to wander aimlessly, gaining little for their efforts.

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    What does it mean to go woolgathering?
    To go woolgathering means “to indulge in aimless thought, day dreaming, or fruitless pursuit.” Sometimes only absent-mindedness is implied. There seems to be an uneasy consensus about the idiom’s origin, but, although I cannot offer an alternative etymology, I am afraid that the existing one should be abandoned.

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    What is the meaning of wool-gathering?
    wool-gathering (n.) also woolgathering, means 'indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking'. This term originated from the literal meaning 'gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.'. See wool + gather. To gather (v.)

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    Was woolgathering a good job?
    According to one opinion, woolgathering was an employment “so poor and unremunerative that well-wishers of their species could not help feeling pity for those who had no better employment. They had to wander through many fields painfully to pick from the thorns small scraps of wool torn from sheep generally poor and lousy.”

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    Was woolgathering profitable?
    As you might imagine, woolgathering was not the most profitable of enterprises; its practitioners must have seemed to wander aimlessly, gaining little for their efforts. In the mid-16th century, woolgathering began to appear in figurative phrases such as "my wits went a woolgathering"—in other words, "my mind went wandering aimlessly."

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