Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general term of condemnation, which is found in all parts of speech, e.g. you blankety-blank! or that blankety-blank, no-good, or don’t you blankety-blank me!

1881		‘Bill Nye’ Bill Nye and Boomerang 81: He called upon blank to everlastingly blank such a blankety blank blank, idiotic blank as the young man was.
1882		E. Field ‘I Cannot Sing the Old Songs’ Little Bk of Trib. Verse (1901) 226: For when I used to sing these songs, / My Papa blankety blanked, / And Mama took me on her knee / And I, alas! was spanked.
1888		Owoso (MI) Press Apr. n.p.: ‘Doktor, I’m a dead man!’ ‘Not right now?’ said I, as I kicked his dog out. ‘Just as good as dead,’ said he, ‘or you wouldn’t kick that dog in that way with safety. Not by a blankety, blank blank sight.’ ‘Needn’t waste so much profanity, Mr. Starkhill,’ said I [F&H].
1889		World (N.Y.) 15 Aug. 1/1: Why, you long, lean blankety blank blank . . . you ought to be strung up by the thumbs, you big, ugly ham.
1890		Sporting Times 8 Feb. 1/4: Well, strike me blanky blankity blank, I should be a blank, dash, blanky, blank if I didn’t.
1895		J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 32: What the blankety blank do they want to go and soften ’emselves up with girls for.
1893		Yellowstone Dly Jrnl (Miles City, CT) 13 Apr. 2/4: Blankety blank the dad binged billy be dad busted slippery old coal hole covers to stagnation, and back again.
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.
1903		J. London People of the Abyss 45: ‘I’ll do as I like, blankety, blank, blank!’ ‘I’d like ter see yer, blankety, blank, blank!’.
1908		N.Y. Trib. 1 Nov. 6/1: Jacques [...] you’re a blinkety-blanked idiot.
1910		H. Hapgood Types From City Streets 160: You dude! [...] you blank, blank, blankety blank, you come down here in your swell clothes and pipe us off.
1911		S. Ford Torchy 198: Young man [...] either you are too blickety blinked fresh to keep, or else you’re too keen to lose.
1916		Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 84: Damn this blankety blank holder, he said, taking it from his mouth and smiling and frowning upon it tolerantly.
1917		‘A-No. 1’ From Coast to Coast with Jack London 72: Now, you blinkety-blankety hoboes!
1917		Van Loan ‘Eliphaz, Late Fairfax’ in Old Man Curry 168: Blankety-blank it to blank!
1917		W.H. Walp diary 1 Feb. 🌐 Those Blankety Blank bites are worse than ever.
1920		H. Wiley Wildcat 47: The captain cooled down enough to explain that the blankety blank Wildcat wasn’t due for anything less than a lynching.
1924		C.E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy Returns 188: Asking every man he bumped into if he were the guilty blankety-blank.
1926		(con. 1901) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 259: Asked by Mr. Freeman if the quotation were true, Calamity replied, ‘All blankety-blank lies’.
1929		R.E. Howard ‘Pit of the Serpent’ Fight Stories July 🌐 Gi’ me leeway – and I’ll do this blankety-blank right.
1929		L. Thomas Woodfill of the Regulars 33: ‘What the blankety blank blank do you blankety blank think you’re shootin’ at?’ he yelled.
1930		E.H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) 42: The lieutenant rang for the doorman and said: ‘Bring up that blankety blank.’.
1936		W. Holtby South Riding (1988) 81: If ever I learn what blank, blanketty blank of a fool put up that wire without marking it, I’ll ...
1941		R. Crane ‘Captain Easy’ [comic strip] Where’s that blankety-blanked cook?
1944		J. Cary Horse’s Mouth (1948) 157: I said, ‘You leave my sister alone, you blankety blank.’.
		1951Dly Record (Long Branch, NJ) 17 Oct. 9/2: A fan stood up [...] and yelled [...] ‘Hit it, you blankety, blankety, blank!!!’.
1963		F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 78: I asked her blankety-blank: ‘Did he kiss you?’.
1967		J. Schaefer Mavericks (1968) 109: Why, you blankety-blank lil’ ol’ hunk of worthless hoss flesh.
1992		R. Marcinko Rogue Warrior (1993) 177: Nor do you carry on with the blankety-blank-blanking language.
1996		B. Scott Banshee and Bullocky 28: ‘Blankety blank dash blank,’ said Charlie. ‘You got the whole blanking tree to dash land in and you blanky dash dash dash have to land near me.’.