Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) used lit. or fig., a bastard.

1909		Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Jan. Red Page/2: See the blanky blankards come! Blokes, this ’ere means lash !
1917		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 11 Apr. 9/1: ‘[N]ick round to the back and catch the blankard slipping out’.
1921		(con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 9: Give it to the floppin’ blankard!
1921		Sydney Mail 9 Mar. 34/2: The name given for the gadjet on the eve of discovery [...] was something like the following: ‘The blankey-blank-umpteen-blankey-blankard,’ which when translated into Diggerism just about fills the bill.
1931		Richmond River Herald & Northern Districts Advertiser (NSW) 13 Nov. 4/3: The artist was heard explaining to a cobber that he had ‘stood the blankards off for four years, and [...] they could blanky well put. up with it!’.
1940		E. Curry Hysterical Hist. of Aus. 79: I do not like this spot at all [...] So as we sail I softly call, / Oh, land of blankards, fare thee well. [Ibid.] 149: Smith, you ding-whanged blankard.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
1954		Townsville Dly Bulletin 7 May 5/4: It was his only driving tree And the blankard— It went back.
1964		H.P. Tritton Time Means Tucker 31: The old blankard was having us on all the time.