boondoggle /boonˈdog-l/ (US)

1. A Scout's plaited cord of varicoloured leather strips
2. An article of simple handcraft
3. Work, or a task, of little or no practical value, esp work officially provided as a palliative for unemployment

To do such work

boon'doggler noun

• Mercator's projection
• mercats
• mercenaries
• mercenarily
• mercenariness
• mercenarism
• mercenarisms
• mercenary
• mercer
• merceries
• mercerisation
• middlemost
• middle name
• middle names
• middle-of-the-road
• middle passage
• middle passages
• middle price
• middle prices
• middles
• middle school
• middle schools
• middle-sized
• Middle States
• middle-stitching