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Blighty

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Blighty/ˈblʌɪti/

▶noun Brit. informal

1 Britain or England, as used by soldiers serving abroad in the First and Second World Wars.

2 military slang a wound suffered in the First World War, sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain.

– origin first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Ind. alt. of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European’.

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