кракозябра

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Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic. The first part крако- may be related to крокодил (krokodil, crocodile).

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Noun edit

кракозя́бра (krakozjábraf inan (genitive кракозя́бры, nominative plural кракозя́бры, genitive plural кракозя́бр)

  1. (computing) mojibake (illegible, corrupt text, usually caused by mismatched encoding; a very common problem with non-Roman scripts and fonts)
    Synonyms: бнопня́ (bnopnjá), бНОПНЯ́ (bNOPNJÁ)
  2. (colloquial) weird looking animal, bizarre fairy-tale creature
    Synonym: чу́до-ю́до (čúdo-júdo)

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