Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general term of condemnation.

1886		Sporting Times 22 May 3/4: ’ow ’ee swore! [...] He says you’re a blank blank blankity pack of blank blanky thives.
1887		St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 9 Oct. 17/5: It’s nice to be a bachelor. He has everything his own way [...] When things don’t please him, why, he can just say words that appear in print like this: ‘Blank, blank, blanketty blank’.
1890		Sporting Times 8 Nov. 1/2: Me go out? Take me for a blank, blanking, blankety lunatic?
1893		Banner-Democrat (Lake Providence, LA) 14 Oct. 1/3: Well, I’ll be blankety blanked! Give a man poison to kill himself with — what’s the world coming to — well, I’ll be blanketty blanked!
1895		Taranaki Herald (NZ) 12 Oct. 2/9: By blankety blank, if I had a blankety box of thingemy matches, I’d set - world - well on fire.
1895		Truth (Sydney) 14 Apr. 3/6: Any blanky fool who signed on who signed to work for five bob a week should be be blankitty well made to do it, blank him the blanky idiot.
1895		‘G.G.’ Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘All what yer seems to git is the blankety grit in yer daisy-cutters’.
1899		W.T. Goodge ‘Quarter Back’ in Hits, Skits and Jingles n.p.: He called him a blankity-blankity quack.
1900		Sporting Times 17 Feb. 1/3: I say, Bill, I’m blowed if everything in this blankety country ain’t in kharki, even to the blooming butterflies.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 11 Sept. 3/2: Why, strike me blanky dash blank dead, / I do my blanky toil,/ And then a blanky blankitty red / Bookmaker grabs the spoil.
1907		N.Z. Truth 21 Dec. 7/4: Somebody used horrible language to him [...] and Bob repeated it by saying, ‘What? Call me a blankety blank blanking blanker!!’.
1912		N.Y. Tribune 23 June 30: Just two industries in this blankety country [...] grand larceny and petty larceny!
1915		Manchester Eve. News 22 Jan. 7/3: ‘Who goes there?’ ‘What the blanketty-blanketty is that to do with you?’.
1922		S. Aumonier ‘Where Was Wych Street’ in O’Brien & Cournos Best British Stories 5: What the blazes does a blanketty nigger know abaht it?
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: blank, Blanky, Blankety. Words used as a substitute for foul language.
1935		Western mail (Perth) 9 May 10/3: Buy me a pot, you crimson blankety son of a blank.
1944		S. Horler Lady with the Limp 143: ‘I’m no blankety crow, Guv’nor, protested his servant.
1947		J.L. Riordan ‘Some ‘G.I. Alphabet Soup’’ in AS XXII:2 Apr. 111: Though most personnel employ profanity freely, some prefer softer expressions like N.B.G. (’no blankety good’)9 [9. This may, however, derive from the British slang phrase ‘no bloody good’].
1951		(con. 1911) Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 56: ‘You and your blankety paper,’ he fumed at Variety’s editor.
1954		Mad mag. July 15: Dash-blast the gosh darned blankety heck!