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Blanket vs Blankety - What's the difference?

blanket | blankety |

As adjectives the difference between blanket and blankety

is that blanket is in general; covering or encompassing everything while blankety is (dated|euphemistic) damnable, damned or blankety can be resembling or related to a blanket.

As a noun blanket

is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

As a verb blanket

is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

blanket

English

(wikipedia blanket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
    • The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
  • A layer of anything.
    • The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
  • A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
    • A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
  • A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

    • Derived terms

    * blankie, blanky * security blanket * smallpox blanket * wet blanket

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In general; covering or encompassing everything.
    • They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
    a blanket ban

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll blanket my loins.
    A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
  • To traverse or complete thoroughly.
    • The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
  • To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
  • To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

    • blankety

    English

    Alternative forms

    * blankity

    Etymology 1

    (blank), from the printer's mark (as in d—!'' for ''damn! ).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (dated, euphemistic) damnable, damned
  • * 1912 , Howard Benjamin Grose, Missions: an international Baptist magazine, Volume 3
    • I'm the blankety -blankety-blank-blank worst man in all this blankety-blankety-blank-blank country...
  • * 1915 , Stanley William Coxon, And that reminds me
    • ...a megaphone demanded to know who the, what the, how the, why the blankety -blank-blank wasn't I keeping my blankety watch on the blankety-blank-blank deck!!

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling or related to a blanket.
  • * 1853 , , Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour , page 206:
    • 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.
  • * 1917 , , Australia Felix , Chapter VIII:
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook , Delacorte Press (2009), ISBN 9780375845246, page 147:
    • It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.
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