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blankety

blankety adjective: damnable, damned.

Adjective (1)

blankety (not comparable)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
    • 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
    • […] 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

Adjective (2)

blankety (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.
    • […] 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

Examples of blankety in a sentence

  • "These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain.2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 131:
  • 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:

Forms of blankety

alternative formblankity

Origin of blankety

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

From blanket + -y.

Questions about blankety

What does blankety mean?
Blankety means damnable, damned.
How do you use blankety in a sentence?
"These blanketytin faces are no good to us," they would complain.
What part of speech is blankety?
Blankety is an adjective.

Words near blankety in the dictionary

  1. blankets
  2. blanketsful
  3. blanketted
  4. blanketting
  5. blanketweed
  6. blankety
  7. blankety-blank
  8. blankety-blanks
  9. Blankfein
  10. blankholder
  11. blankholders

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