"moondoggle" meaning in All languages combined

See moondoggle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: moondoggles [plural]
Etymology: Blend of Moon + boondoggle Etymology templates: {{blend|en|Moon|boondoggle}} Blend of Moon + boondoggle Head templates: {{en-noun}} moondoggle (plural moondoggles)
  1. (US, colloquial, derogatory) Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources. Tags: US, colloquial, derogatory

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Moon",
        "3": "boondoggle"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of Moon + boondoggle",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Moon + boondoggle",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moondoggles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "moondoggle (plural moondoggles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, Frank L. Kluckhohn, What's wrong with U. S. foreign policy?, page 9:",
          "text": "We are virtually abandoning the first Outer Space area through which military attacks may be launched, to spend billions on a nonmilitary moondoggle — the attempt to put a man on the moon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Thomas P. Murphy, Science, Geopolitics, and Federal Spending, page 372:",
          "text": "He stated that “as long as James E. Webb is the Administrator of NASA, I am not voting another dollar for this moondoggle. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Roger E. Alcaly, David Mermelstein, The Fiscal crisis of American cities, page 170:",
          "text": "During the years of Vietnam and the moondoggle the balance of Pentagon prime contracts shifted sharply to the Southern Rim, with the percentages mounting every year, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
      ],
      "id": "en-moondoggle-en-noun-FkPrqGrf",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Moon",
          "Moon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial, derogatory) Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "moondoggle"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Moon",
        "3": "boondoggle"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of Moon + boondoggle",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Moon + boondoggle",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moondoggles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "moondoggle (plural moondoggles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English blends",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, Frank L. Kluckhohn, What's wrong with U. S. foreign policy?, page 9:",
          "text": "We are virtually abandoning the first Outer Space area through which military attacks may be launched, to spend billions on a nonmilitary moondoggle — the attempt to put a man on the moon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Thomas P. Murphy, Science, Geopolitics, and Federal Spending, page 372:",
          "text": "He stated that “as long as James E. Webb is the Administrator of NASA, I am not voting another dollar for this moondoggle. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Roger E. Alcaly, David Mermelstein, The Fiscal crisis of American cities, page 170:",
          "text": "During the years of Vietnam and the moondoggle the balance of Pentagon prime contracts shifted sharply to the Southern Rim, with the percentages mounting every year, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Moon",
          "Moon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial, derogatory) Efforts to transport people to the Moon, regarded as a useless waste of resources."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "moondoggle"
}

Download raw JSONL data for moondoggle meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.