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Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * : an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.

Etymology 2


From, via its use as in Chinese statues of the , picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in 's ' comic strip,  whence it was picked up by ', , and others. Used by as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.

Popularized in computing contexts by the 's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang , which had been repopularized by 's .

Noun

 * 1)  A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.

Etymology 3
A minced form of.

Etymology 1
From the oblique stem of.

Etymology 2
From, variant of.

Adverb

 * 1) in, inside

Verb

 * 1) to stink