WOTD – 1 January 2023 Borrowed from Manx <span class="searchmatch">qualtagh</span>, quaaltagh (“first person one meets after leaving the house; first person one meets on New Year’s Day”...
<span class="searchmatch">qualtaghs</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">qualtagh</span> quaaltaghs...
quaaltaghs plural of quaaltagh (alternative spelling of <span class="searchmatch">qualtaghs</span>)...
enter the home of a household on New Year's Day. Synonym: (Isle of Man) <span class="searchmatch">qualtagh</span> first footing first person to enter the home of a household on New Year’s...
Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 22: The Manx attach great importance to the <span class="searchmatch">qualtagh</span>, or first person met with on the occurrence of any particularly important...
quaaltagh (plural quaaltaghs) (Isle of Man) Alternative spelling of <span class="searchmatch">qualtagh</span>. 1845, Joseph Train, “Manners and Customs”, in An Historical and Statistical...
young lads or men, generally went in old times on what they termed the <span class="searchmatch">Qualtagh</span>, at Christmas or New Year's Day to the house of their more wealthy neighbours;...