inkblot

noun

Etymology: From ink + blot.

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.”