Meanings
blankety1
alternative blankity
- datedeuphemisticnot comparabledamnable, damned
"These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain.
2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 1312 more examples
I'm the blankety-blankety-blank-blank worst man in all this blankety-blankety-blank-blank country […]
1912, Howard Benjamin Grose, Missions: an international Baptist magazine, Volume 3[…] 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!!
1915, Stanley William Coxon, And that reminds me
blankety2
- not comparableResembling or characteristic of a blanket.
It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.
2009, Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 1472 more examples
[…] 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.
1853, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter IV, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, page 206Later 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.
1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter VIII, in Australia Felix
Origin
blankety · adjective
Fro blank + -ety, from the printer's mark (as in d—! for damn!).
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