blighty

See also: Blighty

English

Noun

blighty (plural blighties)

1. Alternative form of Blighty
   • 1986, Pierre Burton, Vimy, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 91:

     With such delights awaiting them only a few miles to the rear, it's no wonder that men prayed for a “blighty” – a small wound that would not incapacitate them for life, but would get them out of the line for a month or even a week. . . . a stray bullet pierced Moore's left foot. Moore cried out, not with pain, but with delight. ¶ “Oh,” he shouted, “it's a beauty, Vic! What a present from the Red Devil! It's a Blighty, I'll bet a dollar.”

   • 2013, Paul Grieve, Upon a Wheel of Fire, →ISBN:

     And after a short time with the West Yorkshires I came to see that discipline and spirit, even at my platoon level, led to fewer cases of minor ailments like colds and flu, to a substantial reduction in trench foot and to the total absence of suicides or deliberately provoked blighties.

   • 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 345:

     'I don't want any of these blighties', Len Wilton concluded.