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Blighty

noun
1.
A slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad.



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"Blighty" Quotes from Famous Books



... the shrapnel right in their face Doing their Hyde Park stunt, Keeping their swing at an easy pace, Arms at the trail, eyes front! Man, it was great to see! Man, it was fine to do! It's a cot and a hospital ward for me, But I'll tell 'em in Blighty, wherever I be, How the ...
— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke


Words linked to "Blighty" :   United Kingdom, UK, U.K., blighty wound, Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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