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Here are the definitions for qualtagh. You have until next week. Good luck.
1. signpost, usually at an intersection of roads, indicating distance to the nearest town in each direction.
2. [Scottish dialect]: forested: traditionally the land around each village is divided into qualtagh (forest), montagh (bog), corn (cultivated) and machair (rough grazing).
3. (n), Gaelic. A knapsack used by Scottish gamekeepers for storing small items such food and shotgun shells while inspecting their estates.
4. A quarter-length shillelagh; made for and used by leprechauns.
5. kindred spirit; doppelgänger [Scots Gaelic]
6. a measure of volume, more than a peck but not as much as as a bushel. (Gaelic)
7. Mythical beast featured in many folk tales of N. American tribes.
8. One who is always ready; never caught on the back foot.
9. the first person one meets after leaving home on some special occasion.
10. A modern quasi-Irish gaelic word meaning discourse about quality issues.
11. idealism
12. a small structure, made of wet animals skins stretched over a framework of green wood and then shrunk over a fire, and then used to house provisions. A design of the Ojibway nation.
13. (n) a slanderer, shrewish person. (from Gaelic qual bad, malicious and tagh tongue, language)
Definitions: AnnaStrophic, Bingley, Capfka, dxb, Fiberbabe, hibernius, Jackie, musick, RhubarbCommando, sjmaxq, Sparteye, wofahulicodoc.
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damn, I forgot about this one...
since it's the 11th, give me 11.
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I'm tossed between 7 and 10.
10's a little too perfect.
I'll go for lucky 7.
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Eliminating anything specifically indigenous leaves 1, 8, 9, 11.
1 doesn't sound right, 11 and 9 are covered... I'll take 8.
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Well, when I looked at the word I thought it was Scots or Gaelic, and sent in a definition to jheem. A bit late, so it isn't here. And most everyone else thought likewise, so I think perhaps it really isn't Scots or Gaelic, so I am gonna plunk for no. 7.
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Cain't be 7, that was meant to invoke images of Sasquatch.
Probably isn't anything Scottish or Gaelic either, because that's too obvious (and too popular). Therefore I'll cast my vote for 2, right here in this here qualtagh box...
(PS. Are you sure we aren't all being led astray, and it's really the Klingon word meaning "You are such a gullible k'tach!" ?)
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and sent in a definition to jheem. A bit late, so it isn't here.
Sorry TEd, I never received a PM, early or late, from you.
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Drat! I was so busy I forgot about this one  I think I'll go with one anyway.
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Pssssst. TEd, I found your definition, not as a pm but as a post, over in "porcine washeteria".
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this is passing strange.. there is a somewhat ordinary English word for meaning #9 (firstfoot), and #8 has "[not] on the backfoot". so is this a continuation on the 'sogennant' theme; i.e., truly worthless words for concepts that have other, more common words available?
I'll foot for 9.
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Probably isn't anything Scottish ... Therefore I'll cast my vote for 2...
I don't understand! Are you being a little contrarian?
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I'm torn between 6, 10 and 13 - both having Irish connections which seem most probable in this case.
Let's go for the lucky number
13
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Probably isn't anything Scottish ... Therefore I'll cast my vote for 2...
I don't understand! Are you being a little contrarian?
You betcha. What I probably _should_ have written was "...therefore I'll cast my vote for 2...anyway!" just to be more explicit.
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Number 2 was very tempting, but there was something not quite quite about it, so I'm going with 12. At least I'll be taking a few of y'all down with me.
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One of these days, I'm going to have a clue. In the meantime, I'll vote for 1.
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Get a clue, Sparteye, get a clue! 
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