Blighty
British slang term for Britain or England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the slang term for Britain. For other uses, see Blighty (disambiguation).
"Blighty" is a British English slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England.[1][2][3] Though it was used throughout the 1800s in the Indian subcontinent to mean an English or British visitor, it was first used during the Boer War in the specific meaning of homeland for the English or British,[4][1] and it was not until World War I that use of the term became widespread.[4]