boondoggle
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Is boondoggle a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (especially scouting) A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.Synonyms: woggle
2. (Canada, US, figuratively, usually politics) A waste of time or money; a pointless activity.Examples: "Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle."; "Senator John Stennis […] has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget."; "By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not."CanadaUSfigurativelyusually
3. (Antarctica, slang) A non-work trip away from a research station.Examples: "A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons."slang
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To waste time on a pointless activity.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary