Blanky

[…] Bill was a wonderful instructor. "'Mark time on that blanky clutch,' he'd yell, and Spud would put his foot on the brake-pedal.

"Slept last night under a railway bridge. Give you my word I was so blanky tired I hardly heard the blanky trains go over it."

Why, strike me pink, I'd sooner drink / With a cove sent up for arson / Than a rain-beseeching, preaching, teaching, / Blanky, cranky parson.

I have repaired the underarms in the sweater so many times it has the love-punished look of the blanky I slept with until age 9.