boondoggle

boondoggle['bu:n,dɔɡl]

• • [美国、加拿大口语]
• vi.
  • 做琐碎而无意义的工作，干琐细而无用的事，作无实际价值的事
• vt.
  • 企图欺骗；欺骗；诓骗，哄骗，蒙蔽：

    They were all boondoggled by her big talk.

    他们都被她的大话所欺骗。

    The company boondoggled investors into a low-interest project.

    这家公司诓骗投资者向一项低息工程投资。

• n.
  • 琐碎而无意义(或无实际价值)的工作，无事瞎忙
  • 无价值的产品
  • 不必要的开支
  • (柳条或皮带制的)小手工艺品
  • (童子军系的)皮辫绳，皮带绳
• 变形:

  vi.boondoggled.boondoggling

• loathness
• refractively
• ways and means
• tribasic sodium phosphate
• erythrocruorins
• Free-Soilers
• jama
• fiestas
• pinholes
• native son
• bookmarker
• Pleven
• telephonic
• sandwich board
• foretaster
• convalescences
• Sporades
• Francescas
• fan sth ↔ out
• fenestrals
• Hubble's constant
• higgle
• semicolumns
• paleotemperature
• exhaustedness
• propernesses
• pseudohermaphrodites
• seadog
• dusties
• voluntarist
• trevallies
• minor planets
• stratus
• prospects
• the click of a mouse
• strophic song
• board sheathing
• indoleamine
• charriest
• as common as muck
• Desault's bandage
• mentalities
• go the round（或rounds）
• plastic deformation
• suppositively
• aldosteronisms
• jet-lags
• provitamin A
• the ball is in your/sb's court
• Chamberlain, Owen
• bugging
• gramophonist
• spatting
• Airy points
• Pulmonata
• competing products / brands / companies etc products etc
• breadwinner
• langue maternelle
• be on the up
• (as)jolly as a sandboy
• bean counters
• Pygopodidae
• budgie
• ferociousness
• breach of confidence / trust
• polycystic ovary syndrome
• year-end
• algolagniac
• standing waters
• on the drawing board
• circulation
• winnability
• Biscay
• bacalao
• bemoil
• Coca-colonization
• lay-ups
• keep in close contact / touch
• griffinhood
• mental handicap
• sodium gluconate
• one's young woman
• antiscientism
• Nif Genes
• configuration of education
• congaing
• yessing
• often
• gabblings
• tripwires
• raise the alarm
• chin oneself
• lee shore
• orchiss
• relaxin
• consistories
• wampumpeag
• electronic news gathering
• dissolvable
• beneath one’s dignity