"ostrobogulous" meaning in English

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      "form": "more ostrobogulous",
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          "text": "\"The Beast and the Devil tried to hold a serious business conversation, but Vickybird kept chipping in with questions of a purely 'ostrobogulous'* nature until Crowley became so enraged that he turned Vickybird into a zebra, rode him into a zoo, where he remained for two years before regaining human shape.\"",
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          "ref": "1982, Charles Richard Johnson, Oxherding",
          "text": "A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them.",
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          "ref": "1990, Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuberg: a biography",
          "text": "He would speak of an ostrobogulous tale or a passage in the classics.",
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        "Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual."
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        "(humorous) Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual."
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