blurgle

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blurgle - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  blurgle
  
     /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] 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 trebled.  "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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

blurgle - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  blurgle
   /bler'gl/, 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.