blighty wound

1. 1.

   a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad

   Broaderwound

Questions about blighty wound

What does blighty wound mean?

blighty wound means "a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad".

Is blighty wound a common word?

blighty wound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.