oxter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oxter
1490–1500; akin to Old English ōcusta armpit, Old Norse ( h ) ōstr throat
Example Sentences
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You may have “The Lives of the Poets” under your oxter, young fellow, but you don’t have them in your head, so go home and read.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
He says, How many Leaders have you under your oxter?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
The wife's aye welcome that comes wi' a crooked oxter.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
With a Bible under his oxter, and a 'bowet' new lit in his right hand, he accompanied me swiftly up the street.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
Ye 'ill better come awa hame,' and sall, if a' hed kent what wes tae happen, a' wud hae taken him aff below ma oxter.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
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