blankety
English
Etymology 1
blank, from the printer's mark (as in d—! for damn!).
Alternative forms
- blankity
Adjective
blankety (not comparable)
- (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
- 1912, Howard Benjamin Grose, Missions: an international Baptist magazine, Volume 3:
- I'm the blankety-blankety-blank-blank worst man in all this blankety-blankety-blank-blank country […]
- 1915, Stanley William Coxon, And that reminds me:
- […] a megaphone demanded to know who the, what the, how the, why the blankety-blank-blank wasn't I keeping my blankety watch on the blankety-blank-blank deck!!
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Etymology 2
blanket + -y
Adjective
blankety (not comparable)
- Resembling or related to a blanket.
- 1853, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter IV, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, page 206:
- […] for the cold had struck through his person, his fine clothes being a poor substitute for his thick double-milled red coat, blankety waistcoat, and Jersey shirt.
- 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter VIII, in Australia Felix:
- Later in the day, clad in an odd collection of baggy garments, he sat and warmed himself in the sun, which was fast drawing up in the form of a blankety mist the moisture from the ground.
- 2009, Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 147:
- It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blankety.
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