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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A euphemistic substitution for the expletive bloody.
Adjective
blanky (not comparable)
- (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)
- 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.