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blurgle
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/blergl/ , n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable , to indicate some text
that is obvious from context, or which is already known. If several words
are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or tripled. To look for
something in several files use grep string blurgle blurgle. In each case,
blurgle blurgle would be understood to be replaced by the file you wished to
search. Compare mumble , sense 7.