woolgathering

"None of which amounted to more than political woolgathering," retorted Davis.

Nigel chuckled as Cristina turned an even brighter shade of embarrassed red and immediately ceased her romantic woolgathering.

"Cease your woolgathering, man!

"Woolgathering, weren't you?"

"Let's try running some of it through the universal translator," Bashir said, intruding as gently as possible on Ezri's scientific woolgathering.

Far from sapping their manly strength, the metaphysical woolgathering of Nate Rosen and Moroni Traveler, the respective series sleuths of the authors Ronald Levitsky and Robert Irvine, serves to enrich their characters.