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blanky en · ADJ · etymology 1

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Etymology

A euphemistic substitution for the expletive bloody.

Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, not-comparable, slang) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
   • ‘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:
   • "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:
   • […] 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:

blanky en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Shortened from blanket + -y.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blankie.
   alt 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:

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