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
There was a wee wifie row'd up in a blanket, Nineteen times as high as the moon; And what she did there I canna declare, For in her oxter she bure the sun.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert
He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then wedges it tight in his oxter.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
"There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter," said Mr. Kernan sententiously.
From Dubliners by Joyce, James
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