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blankety

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Etymology 1

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

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Adjective

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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

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From blanket +‎ -y.

Adjective

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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.