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It's an old term for Britain from the British Raj (Empire). Blighty (not Blightly) derives from Hindustani meaning foreign. Old Blighty was an expression popularised during the first world war including its use by the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon and used in the old music hall. A blighty wound was one that meant evacuation to Britain but not life threatening. It is not used now apart from humorously or by some expatriates as a means of referring affectionately to the old country.

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