Meaning of Blighty one | Babel Free

Definitions

A wound that is relatively minor, but sufficiently severe that one will be sent to the hospital in England.

slang

Examples

“Though my thoughts did not formulate themselves so clearly or so crudely at the time, I had a “Blighty” one, that sort of wound that all the soldiers sighed and sang for (“Take me back to dear old Blighty”), and my platoon, in which I had taken much pride, could now look after itself.”

“'Well, Smudge,' says Danny, 'I heard you'd copped a Blighty One.'”

“'Well, lad, you've got yourself a Blighty one, by the looks!' The orderly patted Mark's neatly bandaged torso.”

“How often on the march one had looked back oneself into a passing ambulance and wished, rather shamefully, for a “Blighty” one.”

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