ti 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 or blighty bird (ˈblaɪtɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| (NZ) another name for white-eye | |
| blighty bird or blighty bird | |
| —n | |
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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. |
| Blighty (ˈblaɪtɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | England; home |
| 2. | esp in World War I |
| a. Also called: a blighty one a slight wound that causes the recipient to be sent home to England | |
| b. leave in England | |
| [C20: from Hindi bilāyatī foreign land, England, from Arabic wilāyat country, from waliya he rules] | |
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