Blackadder vocabulary

31 British vocabulary words

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Blighty

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

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Blackadder: The show's going to the London Palladium, sir?
Melchett: Oh yes of course. No good crushing the revolution over here only to get back home to Blighty and find that everyone's wearing overalls and breaking wind in the palaces of the mighty.

BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Major Star
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Everyone sat down again. From the back room, the voices of the RAF clattered into the bar. "There's a Lancaster leaving the Ruhr," they sang, "bound for old Blighty's shore, heavily laden with terrified men, Shit-scared and prone on the floor..."

Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.374 (1948)
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