Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blinding adj.²

a euph. for bloody adj.

c.1905		J. Furphy Buln-Buln and the Brolga (1948) 🌐 Blinded thing’s costed me two notes a’ready, not to speak o’ the fire.
1919		V. Marshall World of Living Dead (1969) 124: Why, a pore dorg could go black in the face and spew his soulcase up—what the blinded ’ell would one o’ them sods care.
1941		‘A Malta Song’ in C.H. Ward-Jackson Airman’s Song Book (1945) 145: We’re flying binding Hurricanes with binding long range tanks, / We do some aerobatics but we get no binding thanks.
1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 16: You ain’t fell down and broke your blinding neck, have you?
1954		C. Fry Dark is Light Enough 64: When I made that precise point yesterday, You found it such a blinding blow to your honour You had to challenge me.
1968		Oz 8 46/2: He’s a natterer. We’ll be here all blinding night.
1977		(con. 1950s–60s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 26: Put the blinding kettle on. [Ibid.] 149: Our Geoff drove me back home and blinding hell when we got there we found that the house had been broken into.