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Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War , and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to " Blighty " - a slang term for Britain .
Million-dollar wound" (American English) or "Blighty wound" (British English) is military slang for a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the soldier sent away from the fighting, but neither fatal nor permanently crippling.
The English variation of Vilayat is Blighty. Malayalis of Kerala use the term Sayyippu or Vellakkaran to refer to a male westerner. In Assam (which became part of British India in 1828), the British are called Boga Bongal (literally meaning 'white foreigners' or 'white intruders').
It was a parody of contemporary life in Britain as seen in the small village of Little Blighty. ( Blighty being an old affectionate nickname for Britain; a down is a chalk hill, such as in England's South Downs ; the village's name is thus suggestive of a Britain which is "little" rather than "great" in terms of importance or governance, and ...
Blighty is an English slang term for Britain. Blighty may also refer to: Blighty, New South Wales, a town in Australia; Blighty (TV channel), a former UKTV channel;
On the plus side, Llewelyn-Bowen is always a good booking. “Takes me back to ’Nam,” he says while crawling through the undergrowth. “Cheltenham.” (This works better out loud than on the ...
Amity Blight is a 14-year-old inhabitant of the Boiling Isles, an archipelago located in the Demon Realm. The Demon Realm is a realm apart from the Human Realm, which can be accessed through the means of portals, or as shown in the series, a magical door.