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(Australia, slang) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation. quotations
[…] Bill was a wonderful instructor."'Mark time on that blanky clutch,' he'd yell, and Spud would put his foot on the brake-pedal.
1914, Edgar Wallace, Smithy
"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."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 71
Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.
1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85
plural blankies
Alternative form of blankie quotations examples
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.
2009 June 18, Cintra Wilson, “A Spirit in a Material World”, in New York Times