boondoggle英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
A waste of time or money; a pointless activity. Canada,US,figuratively,usually

— Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.
A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.

— 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.
A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.; A non-work trip away from a research station. slang

— A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons.

动词 v.

To waste time on a pointless activity. intransitive

— These days the astronaut job title has been split into two categories. (Three, counting payload specialist, the category into which teachers, boondoggling senators, and junketing Saudi princes fall.)

词形变化

boondoggles plural boondoggles present,singular,third-person boondoggling participle,present boondoggled participle,past boondoggled past

词汇关系

衍生词

boondoggler moondoggle

词源

词源 1

Coined by American scout leader Robert H. Link in 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”. Compare woggle of similar sense, which is attested in the same period. In the sense of a “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids.

词源 2

Coined by American scout leader Robert H. Link in 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”. Compare woggle of similar sense, which is attested in the same period. In the sense of a “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids.