Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr./W.I.) a general expletive, the local pron. of the UK bloody adj.

1926		E. Walrond Tropic Death (1972) 42: I let dem understand quick enough dat I wuz a Englishman and not a bleddy American nigger!
1948		P. Kavanagh Tarry Flynn (1965) 30: What the bleddy hell are ye listening to women’s talk for?
1960		D. Lytton Goddam White Man 74: Drink that bladdy drink up.
1963		K. Mackenzie Dragon to Kill 151: You bleddy fool!
1975		S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 19: We never even got a bladdy cup of tea.
1981		C. Hope Separate Development 27: The dregs is what they gotta employ on the buses. Bladdy monkeys straight from the bush.
1985		B. Simon ‘Outers’ Born in the RSA (1997) 49: Hey, they’ve taken my bladdie pink comb.
1989		J. Hobbs Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary 35: Ag, that’s normal where there’s flats. The girls make a bleddy packet on the side.
1996		CyberBraai Lex. at www.matriots.com 🌐 For emphasis, ‘blooming’ can be replaced by ‘bladdy’, which, in turn, is a corruption of the Austrian ‘bloody’. [Ibid.] It’s no bladdy good moaning afterwards that you didn’t catch anyone’s drift.
2001		A. Sillitoe Birthday 32: That bleddy miserable husband she’s got to look after. A right bleddy burden he is.
2009		IOL News (Western Cape) 24 June 🌐 He did not know the temperature [...] knew it hd been ‘bladdy cold’.
2011		S. Kelman Pigeon English 112: Bleddy Catholics. They want to give us all Aids.