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English
Etymology
ink + blot
Pronunciation
Noun
inkblot (plural inkblots)
- A blot of ink.
1922, Stephen Vincent Benét, Young People's Pride: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.
- (figuratively) A dark, shapeless object.
1916, Joseph Conrad, Within the Tides:In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, ...
- (psychology) Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach inkblot test.
- 1998, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV, episode 3.04)
- 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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