blankety

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• blankity

Adjective

blankety (not comparable)

1. (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
   • 1912, Howard Benjamin Grose, Missions: an international Baptist magazine, Volume 3:

     I'm the blankety-blankety-blank-blank worst man in all this blankety-blankety-blank-blank country […]

   • 1915, Stanley William Coxon, And that reminds me:

     […] 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!!

   • 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 131:

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

Etymology 2

From blanket +‎ -y.

Adjective

blankety (not comparable)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.
   • 1853, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter IV, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour‎^[1], page 206:

     […] 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.

   • 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter VIII, in Australia Felix:

     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.

   • 2009, Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 147:

     It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blankety.