oxter

American  

[ok-ster] / ˈɒk stər /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. the armpit.

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oxter British  

/ ˈɒkstə /

noun

1. dialect the armpit

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Etymology

Origin of oxter

1490–1500; akin to Old English ōcusta armpit, Old Norse ( h ) ōstr throat

Example Sentences

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's no a claver in a' the countryside but ye maun fess 't hame aneth yer oxter, as gin 't were the prodigal afore he repentit.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

By your way of it, you're Balfour of the Shaws; but for what I ken you may be Balfour of the Deevil's oxter.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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)