bladdy, adjective and & adverb

/ˈblædi/
Forms:
Also blady.
Origin:
English, AfrikaansShow more Pronunciation-spelling of the English expletive bloody, reflecting a pronunciation influenced by Afrikaans but common among English-speakers. See also bleddy.
slang
Note:
See note at bleddy.
A. adjective blerry adjective
1973 Y. Burgess Life to Live 61The kids..stretch you to bladdy blazes, you never the same again.
1977 S. Roberts in E. Pereira Contemp. S. Afr. Plays 232It’s the weekend...he couldn’t get through a Saturday without his bladdy bottle.
1978 A.P. Brink Rumours of Rain 31Where you think I get change for two rand, bladdy fool?
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 37Delicate wafer. Tiny ripples for artistic effect. I mean, this isn’t just sommer a chip any more — it’s a bladdy twentieth-century work of art!
1989 A. Sher Middlepost 68You gave me such a damn-bladdy fright, you bastard.
1990 Style May 37I asked Van Tonder about the swastikas. ‘Ag man,’ he said, ‘those bladdy things. I keep telling people, we’re not Germans, we’re Boere.’
B. adverb blerry adverb.
1974 B. Simon Joburg, Sis! 129They walk around there with their long hair and their tight jeans and so bladdy filthy dirty man.
1977 C. Clayton in Contrast 43 Vol.11 No.3, 23He..laughed loudly, shouting in her ear, ‘Too bladdy drunk, old Alice, too bladdy drunk.’
1984 Sunday Times 1 Apr. (Mag. Sect.) 27If I say that to the whites, they’ll bladdy laugh at me!
1987 M. Poland Train to Doringbult 190It’s been so bladdy boring with Kobie and them away.
1991 P. Slabolepszy Braait Laaities. 9Boikie:..Why don’t you show me what you’ve got? Moira: I’m not bladdy showing anybody anything!
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