blankety

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adjective

damnable, damned

Scrabble 17

Meanings

blankety1

adjectiveblankety (not comparable)

alternative blankity

  1. datedeuphemisticnot comparabledamnable, damned

    "These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain.

    2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 131
    2 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

adjectiveblankety (not comparable)
  1. 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 147
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    […] 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 206

    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.

    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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