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

• absterged
• abstergent
• abstergents
• absterges
• absterging
• abstersion
• abstersions
• abstersive
• abstersives
• abstinence
• abstinences
• abstinencies
• abstinency
• abstinent
• abstinently
• abstr.
• abstract
• abstracted
• abstractedly
• abstractedness
• abstractednesses
• abstracter
• abstracters
• abstractest
• abstract expressionism