blighty
Often Blighty . Britain, or specifically England, as one's home or native land: We're sailing for old Blighty tomorrow.
a wound or furlough permitting a soldier to be sent back to Britain from the front.
military leave.
Origin of blighty
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How to use blighty in a sentence
We reckon Harry will allow himself a glass of something bubbly on the plane back to blighty this evening.
Prince Harry's U.S. Tour: Rolling Updates and all the News and Pictures as It Happens | Tom Sykes | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTQueen Beatrix may be ready to pack up and go, but here in blighty, like it or not, our Kings and Queens have a job for life.
Queen Beatrix May Have Abdicated, But Queen Elizabeth Never Will, Insiders Say | Tom Sykes | January 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt more likely means you are a working class lad from blighty.
Ive got my dose, an Im bound for blighty, he said, an gels chuckin flowers in the ambulance in Lunnon.
Grapes of wrath | Boyd CableYoull soon be tucked up safe in a bed now, or pushin on to the ambulance train and a straight run ome to blighty.
Grapes of wrath | Boyd Cable
Our right section commander got a blighty two days ago and is probably now in England.
Carry On | Coningsby DawsonEverywhere we looked there were crowds of them; we thought there were a lot in blighty, but there seemed to be nothing else here.
Into the Jaws of Death | Jack O'BrienShortly after this we had several casualties in Platoon 10—two or three were killed, and several wounded and got their "blighty."
Into the Jaws of Death | Jack O'Brien
British Dictionary definitions for blighty (1 of 2)
blighty bird
/ (ˈblaɪtɪ) /
NZ another name for white-eye
British Dictionary definitions for Blighty (2 of 2)
/ (ˈblaɪtɪ) /
England; home
(esp in World War I)
Also called: a blighty one a slight wound that causes the recipient to be sent home to England
leave in England
Origin of Blighty
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