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blankety en · ADJ · etymology 1

Fro blank + -ety, from the printer's mark (as in d—! for damn!).

(dated, euphemistic, not-comparable) damnable, damned
- […] 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:
- "These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain. 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 131:
- 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:

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blankity		alternative	lexicographic

From blanket + -y.

(not-comparable) Resembling 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:
- […] 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: