Blighty Wound (Noun)
Meaning
A wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- After taking shrapnel to the leg, he knew he'd got a blighty wound that would get him back to England.
- His mate had been shot in the chest, but luckily it was just a blighty wound, and he'd recover in a London hospital.
- Getting a blighty wound was every soldier's ticket out of the trenches, but no one wanted to suffer to get it.
- He had always been skeptical of those who claimed to have gotten a blighty wound, thinking they were just looking for a way out.
- After a month in the hospital, the doc told him his leg was a lost cause and that he had a genuine blighty wound that would send him back to Blighty.