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Definition of Blighty wound
1. Noun. A wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blighty Wound
Literary usage of Blighty wound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Right of the British Line by Gilbert Nobbs (1917)
"I wouldn't mind getting a blighty wound in about a month's time. That would suit
me down to the ... "And here's to an early blighty wound," said Collins. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"Hence, a blighty wound is any wound which invalids a soldier to England. Blimp.—A
slang name given to a small dirigible designed primarily to locate and ..."
3. Raymond, Or Life and Death: With Examples of the Evidence for Survival of by Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (1916)
"A blighty wound . . A wound that necessitates invaliding home. PUCCA . . . .
Real, genuine. in the trenches. DUG-OUT .... A cramped dwelling-place, ..."
4. New Words Self-defined by Charles Alphonso Smith (1919)
"A "blighty" wound is one which sends a Tommy home to recover.—Atlantic Monthly,
Feb., 1917. And his [Tommy's] customary name for Great Britain is "blighty," ..."
5. Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer by R. A. L., Anna Chapin Ray (1918)
"The first question a patient asks you most eagerly, "Is it a blighty wound?"
That means one bad enough to be sent to Eng'and, yet not bad enough to keep ..."
6. Now it Can be Told by Philip Gibbs (1920)
"... that it was their doom always to live in ditches and dugouts, and that their
only way of escape was by a "Blighty" wound or by death. ..."
7. A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes (1918)
"They were in the midst of a discussion of what part of the body was most desirable
to part with for a permanent blighty wound when a young officer pushed ..."
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