Crossword-Solution: WOOLGATHERING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Woolgathering | a. | Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. |
| Woolgathering | n. | Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WOOLGATHERING | anagram | GATHERINGWOOL |
We have 7 clues for the answer “WOOLGATHERING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Party for sheep shearers? | 1 answer |
| Purposeless thinking. | 1 answer |
| Where knitters get together? | 1 answer |
| Absentminded activity | 2 answers |
| Flock of sheep | 2 answers |
| Daydreaming | 40 answers |
| Daydream | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WOOLGATHERING (5)
Your wits are gone a woolgathering; saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed in thought.
Mother used to say, “Sam, your head is always a woolgathering.” “I am glad of it,” says I, “marm.” “Why, Sam,” she’d say, “why, what on earth do you mean?” “Because, marm,” I’d reply, “a head that’s alway a gathering will get well stored at last.” “Do get out,” the dear old soul would say, “I do believe, in my heart, you are the most nimpent (impudent), idlest, good-for-nothingest boy in the world.
Oliver Cromwell was then in London, having come to town with three wagonloads of wool, but his wits were not woolgathering.
Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
Malise, my man, caa' ye no that an honour, a privileege? Is that no owing to me being the sister--on my faither's side--o' Ninian Halliburton, merchant and indweller in Dumfries?" "Nay, nay, good dame," laughed the Earl, "'tis all for the sake of your own very sufficient charms! I trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
Quotes with WOOLGATHERING (2)
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1957–2019).