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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



... intently in the intervals when the gramophone isn't playing, I can hear the sound of bath-water running—running in a reckless kind of fashion as if it didn't care how much was wasted. To me, so recently out of the fighting and so short a time in Blighty, it seems the finest music in the world. For the sheer luxury of the contrast I close my eyes against the July sunlight and imagine myself back in one of those narrow dug-outs where it isn't the thing to undress because the row may start at ...
— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson
... it across to Blighty and shoved it into the Zoo. They're frightfully sick about that tiger being in a cage; they wouldn't have minded a sahib killing it for the good of mankind it seems, but putting it behind bars is an insult to some god, or something ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... contribution is "Back to Blighty," by Joseph Parks, a vivid vignette of one phase of military life. "Trinidad and its Forests," by F. E. M. Hercules, is marked by its author's customary ease of expression and felicity of diction; presenting many facts of general interest. The poetry in this issue includes ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... through the medium of an imaginative temperament, the fine comradeship of the trenches, the heroism that shines through the haunting fear of death, mostly conquered with a laugh, but sometimes frankly expressed in the pathetic desire for a "blighty" wound—a wound just serious enough to send the envied hero home. You won't get much of the Romance of War out of this strong piece of work, except the jolly sort of romance of the little Cockney, Bill, who, when the regiment in reserve ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 • Various


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


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