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boondoggling

boondoggling is the present participle and gerund of boondoggle.

Meaning of boondoggle

Verb

boondoggle (third-person singular simple present boondoggles, present participle boondoggling, simple past and past participle boondoggled)

  1. (intransitive) To waste time on a pointless activity.
    • 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.)2010, Mary Roach, “He's Smart But His Birds Are Sloppy: Japan Picks an Astronaut”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 28

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Questions about boondoggling

What is boondoggling the present participle and gerund of?
Boondoggling is the present participle and gerund of boondoggle.

Words near boondoggling in the dictionary

  1. boondoggle
  2. boondoggled
  3. boondoggler
  4. boondogglers
  5. boondoggles
  6. boondoggling
  7. boondy
  8. Boone
  9. Boone County
  10. booner
  11. booners

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