Blighty

blighty, blighty bird [ˈblaɪtɪ]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) NZ another name for white-eye

Blighty [ˈblaɪtɪ]

n (sometimes not capital) Brit slang (used esp by troops serving abroad)

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

[from Hindi bilāyatī foreign land, England, from Arabic wilāyat country, from waliya he rules]

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Noun

Blighty - a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad

Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

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Blighty (o.f.) [ˈblaɪtɪ] N (Brit) (Mil) → Inglaterra f

Blighty

n (Brit Mil sl) (= leave) → Heimaturlaub m; (= England) → die Heimat; he’s going back to Blighty → er geht nach Hause; a blighty one (= wound) → ein Heimatschuss m

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blighty wound
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white-eye
wound

This blighty weather is not affecting his darling appetite?

The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context

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