word of the day

woolgathering \WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\, noun:
Indulgence in idle daydreaming.

I don't normally pay much attention to word of the day, as I have enough words to be attempting to lodge in my memory in medicine, but I was intrugued by today's word. Glad I looked it up, as I like it. Think I may try and drop it in conversation occasionally.

The way this guy used it on word of the day website makes me smile.

Similarly, in the meadow, if you laze too late into the fall, woolgathering, snow could fill your mouth.-- Edward Hoagland, "Earth's eye", Sierra, May 1999

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