Blighty
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌɪti/
noun
British
– an informal term for Britain or England, used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.
Origin:
first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European’, from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district’
(Oxford Dictionaries – online)
