blankety
adjEtymology From blanket + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of a blanket.
- […] for the cold had struck through his person, his fine clothes being a poor substitute for his thick double-milled red coat, blankety waistcoat, and Jersey shirt.1853, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter IV, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, page 206:
- Later in the day, clad in an odd collection of baggy garments, he sat and warmed himself in the sun, which was fast drawing up in the form of a blankety mist the moisture from the ground.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter VIII, in Australia Felix:
1 more example
- It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.2009, Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 147:
- Related terms
- blankety-blank