woolgathering

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  1. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
  2. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

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  1. an idle indulgence in fantasy
  2. dreamy in mood or nature

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  • Self-conscious about my woolgathering, I touched a key and the image on the screen was replaced by a graph of pile growth rates at each of the five shitdog sites. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
  • Kristine wished she could make up her mind whether the handful of pro bono cases he took on to see justice served negated the evil he apparently condoned from his paying clients Ms. Granger Chiding herself for woolgathering, Kristine pulled the last file from her box. —  In His Own Defense
  • ;I'm woolgathering, I guess In the flat she made a cup of tea and resolutely went straight to her desk. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
  • He chivalrously covered my position as well as his own, so my woolgathering was only interrupted when it was my turn to serve; my team ducked warily out of the way every time I was up. —  Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
  • You get sloppy, you get distracted and start your woolgathering, and you know what happens I could die. —  FSF,September2004
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