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
Yet he could get a' the wives he wants, by just coming doon like a tod aff the hill, and takin' yin below his oxter.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And as she said this, she held up her oxter, as if to tak me below't.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
The wife's aye welcome that comes wi' a crooked oxter.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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