blanky

1. AustraliaUKnot comparableslangA mild intensifier, expressing irritation.

   "Slept last night under a railway bridge. Give you my word I was so blanky tired I hardly heard the blanky trains go over it."

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71

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   ‘When I peg out,’ Dan said, throwing down his shovel, ‘I hope there’ll be none o’ this humbug about me. Sling me up into the fork of a blanky tree, that’ll be enough!’

   1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 77

   […] Bill was a wonderful instructor. "'Mark time on that blanky clutch,' he'd yell, and Spud would put his foot on the brake-pedal.

   1914, Edgar Wallace, Smithy

   Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.

   1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85

plural blankies

1. alternativeAlternative form of blankie.

   I have repaired the underarms in the sweater so many times it has the love-punished look of the blanky I slept with until age 9.

   2009 June 18, Cintra Wilson, “A Spirit in a Material World”, in New York Times