Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. One who engages in woolgathering.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
Etymologies
- woolgather + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If one is to knit wool, mustn't one first be a woolgatherer?”
“Ichabod, on the other hand, is totally lacking in the "reason" that might help him win Katrina more expediently - he's not only an easy-to-mock woolgatherer but a believer in spiritualist folly that makes his universe impossibly hazardous (indeed, what the superstitious receive in exchange for sensibility is the comforting promise that arbitrary rituals - such as the spilled salt Ichabod tosses over his shoulder - will protect them).”
“Reason completists will recall Harrison as the author of Dominion of the Dead, a lovely study of funerary practice mentioned in my zombie cinema woolgatherer of yore.”
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