Blighty

Definition: Blighty

Blighty

Noun

1. A slang term for England used by English troops serving abroad.

Crosswords: Blighty

English words defined with "Blighty": blighty wound. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blighty

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Diggers in Blighty (1933)

Blighty (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Blighty

Domain	Title
Books	Blighty (reference) Dear old Blighty (reference) Take me back to dear old Blighty : the First World War through the eyes of the heraldic china manufacturers (reference) (more book examples)

Music	20 Blasters From Blighty (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Blighty

"Blighty" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blighty" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	41	53,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Blighty

Expression using "Blighty": blighty wound. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blighty

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
blighty	12
best blighty	7
blighty design	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blighty

Language		Translations for "Blighty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Angli (albion, England, great britain, united kingdom). (various references)

Bulgarian		У �"ома. (various references)

Czech		Protivnì. (various references)

Hungarian		Hazatérés A Szülõföldre. (various references)

Pig Latin		ightyblay

Portuguese		Inglaterra (England), A Pátria. (various references)

Russian		�' Англию. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zavičaj (home, homeland), engleska (albion, england). (various references)

Spanish		Inglaterra (England). (various references)

Swedish		Hemland England. (various references)

Turkish		Vatan (habitat, home, homeland, land, motherland, native land, native shore, old country, soil), Ýngiltere (England). (various references)

Ukranian		�'ітчизняний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blighty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-l-t-y"
	-1 letter: blight.
	-2 letters: bight, bigly, bilgy, light.
	-3 letters: gilt, glib, hilt.
	-4 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit, lib, lit, thy, til.
	-5 letters: bi, by, hi, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-l-t-y"
	+1 letter: brightly.
	+4 letters: benightedly.
	+5 letters: bathypelagic, bewitchingly, bigheartedly, pathobiology, photobiology.
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