Word Of The Day

Blighty:

  1. An informal term for Britain or England, used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.
    1. military slang A wound suffered by a soldier in the First World War which was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain.
      ‘he had copped a Blighty and was on his way home’ [Oxford English Dictionaries]

Just popped into my head this morning.

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