· the day after christmas is boxing day in the uk. “a traditional new england thanksgiving, for example, consisted of a raffle held on thanksgiving eve (in which the prizes were mainly geese or turkeys), a shooting match on thanksgiving morning (in which turkeys and chickens were used as targets), church services, and. · after a big dinner, i cant eat dessert thanksgiving is a dinner when most people eat turkey in europe, a dinner can last 3 hours. I always thought the names of holidays were proper names, and should thus be capitalized christmas, thanksgiving, etc. I dont think theres a general word for the day after holidays in general. Lunch = midday (any size) supper or dinner = evening (any size), but sometimes dinner is a big special meal instead of linch or supper, like sunday dinner or thanksgiving dinner. However, i recently made a typo when talking about christmas (christmsa), and my spelling checker corrected it to be lower case christmas. A dinner in japan often contains rice in these cases, youre either speaking in the abstract about the concept of dinner or youre speaking about a specific dinner apart from other dinners. · i can find instances of “thanksgiving eve”, such as here on wikipedia:
