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boondoggle

verbid 1860·updated Jun 3, 2026
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to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

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Cognitive

Evaluate72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

pasttense
boondoggled
presentparticiple
boondoggling
thirdpersonsingular
boondoggles
pastparticiple
boondoggled

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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