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inkblot

noun
/ˈɪŋkˌblɑt/CA

Etymology

From ink + blot.

  1. inherited from blot — “blot, spot, stain, blemish”
  2. compounded as inkblot — “ink + blot”

Definitions

  1. A blot of ink.

    • A note from Deller with five pencil sketches attached of the new trade figures for Brittlekin -- two bloated looking children with inkblot eyes looking greedily at an enormous bar of peanut candy.

  2. A dark, shapeless object.

    • In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, ...

  3. Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach test.

    • Look, I know that I have to do this, and I'll cooperate, and I'll look at your inkblots and everything, but I don't wanna talk about my life or my childhood or... anything, for that matter, actually.

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Derived

inkblot test

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inkblot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA