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noun, plural blight·ies. British Slang.
1.
(often initial capital letter) England as one's native land; England as home: We're sailing for old Blighty tomorrow.
2.
a wound or furlough permitting a soldier to be sent back to England from the front.
3.
military leave.
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Blighty
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| blighty or blighty bird (ˈblaɪtɪ) | |
| —n | |
| (NZ) another name for white-eye | |
| blighty bird or blighty bird | |
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