"inkblot" meaning in English

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