blanky

English

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Etymology 1

A euphemistic substitution for the expletive bloody.

Adjective

blanky (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, slang) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
    • 1914, Edgar Wallace, Smithy:
      […] Bill was a wonderful instructor.
      "'Mark time on that blanky clutch,' he'd yell, and Spud would put his foot on the brake-pedal.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71:
      "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."
    • 1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85:
      Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.

Etymology 2

Shortened from blanket +‎ -y.

Noun

blanky (plural blankies)

  1. Alternative form of blankie
    • 2009 June 18, Cintra Wilson, “A Spirit in a Material World”, in New York Times‎:
      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.
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