Blighty

 
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌɪti/

noun

British
  • an informal term for Britain or England, used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.
  • military slang a wound suffered by a soldier in the First World War which was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain: he had copped a Blighty and was on his way home

Origin:

first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī 'foreign, European', from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya 'dominion, district'