Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to boondoggle
Participle: boondoggled
Gerund: boondoggling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | boondoggle |
| you | boondoggle |
| he;she;it | boondoggles |
| we | boondoggle |
| you | boondoggle |
| they | boondoggle |
Perfect
| I | have boondoggled |
| you | have boondoggled |
| he;she;it | has boondoggled |
| we | have boondoggled |
| you | have boondoggled |
| they | have boondoggled |
Past
| I | boondoggled |
| you | boondoggled |
| he;she;it | boondoggled |
| we | boondoggled |
| you | boondoggled |
| they | boondoggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had boondoggled |
| you | had boondoggled |
| he;she;it | had boondoggled |
| we | had boondoggled |
| you | had boondoggled |
| they | had boondoggled |
Future
| I | will boondoggle |
| you | will boondoggle |
| he;she;it | will boondoggle |
| we | will boondoggle |
| you | will boondoggle |
| they | will boondoggle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have boondoggled |
| you | will have boondoggled |
| he;she;it | will have boondoggled |
| we | will have boondoggled |
| you | will have boondoggled |
| they | will have boondoggled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | boondoggle |
| you | boondoggle |
| he;she;it | boondoggle |
| we | boondoggle |
| you | boondoggle |
| they | boondoggle |
Perfect
| I | have boondoggled |
| you | have boondoggled |
| he;she;it | have boondoggled |
| we | have boondoggled |
| you | have boondoggled |
| they | have boondoggled |
Imperfect
| I | boondoggled |
| you | boondoggled |
| he;she;it | boondoggled |
| we | boondoggled |
| you | boondoggled |
| they | boondoggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had boondoggled |
| you | had boondoggled |
| he;she;it | had boondoggled |
| we | had boondoggled |
| you | had boondoggled |
| they | had boondoggled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would boondoggle |
| you | would boondoggle |
| he;she;it | would boondoggle |
| we | would boondoggle |
| you | would boondoggle |
| they | would boondoggle |
Perfect
| I | would have boondoggled |
| you | would have boondoggled |
| he;she;it | would have boondoggled |
| we | would have boondoggled |
| you | would have boondoggled |
| they | would have boondoggled |
Imperative
| you | boondoggle |
| we | Let's boondoggle |
| you | boondoggle |
Verbs conjugated like 'boondoggle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'boondoggle'
becroggle,
bedaggle,
boggle,
boondock,
broggle,
condole,
hornswoggle,
snoggle,
untoggle,
bandage,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
Sample Sentences
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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:]