Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a euph. for bloody adj. or damned adj., or a similar intensifier.

1882		W.P. Spalding My Day with the Hounds 100: There’s that blanky feller a-pullin’ of the blanky ’orse a’ ready ; and there, I’ve took ten blanky suv’rins to height about ’im.
1883		Sportsman (Melbourne) 29 Aug. 2/6: That blanky thief, Moses Lazarus.
1892		H. Lawson ‘The Drover’s Wife’ in Roderick (1972) 48: I’d like to screw their blanky necks.
1894		‘The “Ringer” of the Shed’ in N.Z. Observer 3 Feb. 17: Know the bloomin’ half of them would sooner I was dead / For the blanky, blanky ringer takes the cream of every ashed.
1895		W. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 38: He lets go of it, and it — [...] ’Its the blankey copper right full on the blankey ’elmet.
1900		Sporting Times 6 Jan. 1/5: You poor blank blank [...] I suppose you are thinking of your poor blanky mother.
1902		W.T. Goodge ‘Bush Missionary‘ in Bulletin Reciter n.p.: Sing; yer blanky beggars, sing’ / Make the blanky welkin ring! / Won’t you blanky sons of blankers help the blanky man to sing!
1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 16 Mar. 2/3: He's a blanky blank blanketty villain alright, and his score of murders mounts up most gallantly.
1908		E.G. Murphy ‘A Gibney-Riley Wrangle’ in Jarrahland Jingles 22: Let their blanky Lordships stay there till they’ve picked their blanky bone!
1915		Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: There’s awful blanky argyments, / But they finish up still mates.
1921		Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang Mar. 33: We shake our fist and call our enemy ‘a blankey-blank- son-of-a-blank’.
1924		Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 68: He didn’t want the young Jackeroo planted on him, to teach any blankey thing to.
1925		N. Lucas Autobiog. of a Thief 104: Whatever do yous expect me to do with a blanky thing like that?
1938		N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 74: I was so blanky tired I hardly heard the blanky trains go over it.
1941		A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 11 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] By cripes [...] th’ captain can cart his blanky life preservers ashore isself!!
1957		J.M. Hosking ‘Permanent Army Life’ Aus. First and Last 25: You must clean your spotless rifle though there’s not a speck of dust, / Then the blanky blank old R.S.M. is sure to find some rust!
1964		H.P. Tritton Time Means Tucker 31: I reckon we went round that blanky yard twenty times.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 45: In ‘The Bastard [from the Bush’], the Captain asks the stranger: ‘Would you stoush a blanky Chinky?’ And the stranger replies, ‘My colonial oath I would!’.

2. as infix.

1918

N.Z. Observer 9 Dec. 5/3: You must have seen him runnin’ past / Quite abso-blanky-lutely last.