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Blighty

名詞

1. 英国を表す俗語で、海外に駐留する英国軍人が使用する(a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad)
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blighty

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Blighty

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/10/16 11:46 UTC 版)

語源

Corruption of the Hindustani विलायती (vilāytī) / وِلایَتی (vilāyatī, “foreign”), which is related to Arabic ولاية (wilāyah, “state, province”), whence also, through Turkish, vilayet.

Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato, विलायती बैंगन (vilāytī baiṅgan, literally “foreign aubergine”), and especially to soda water, which was commonly called विलायती पानी (vilāytī pānī, literally “foreign water”).

Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs "There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty", "We wish we were in Blighty", and "Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town", and in Wilfred Owen's poems, as well as many other places.

The sense of a minor wound comes from attributive use of the noun, as in “a Blighty wound,” “a Blighty one,” 1916.

In modern Australian usage, Old – a sentimental reference to Britain, as in Old Country and Old Dart – was added to give Old Blighty.

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固有名詞

Blighty

  1. (originally military slang) Great Britain, Britain, or England, especially as viewed from abroad.

派生語

名詞

Blighty (plural Blighties)

  1. (military slang) Synonym of Blighty one.

発音記号

  • / ˈblaɪti / (米国英語)

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