Boondoggle

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  boondoggle \boon"dog*gle\ v.
     1. a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for
        various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.
  
     2. a useless, wasteful, or impractical project; -- especially
        one authorized by a government agency as a favor to


        partisans, to employ unemployed people, or in return for
        corrupt payments.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  boondoggle \boon"dog*gle\ v.
     to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boondoggle
       n : work of little or no value done merely to look busy
       v : do useless, wasteful, or trivial work