oxter

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

O Ony, any. orra, odd. owre, over. oxter, the armpit.

From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David

As for Peter, who had been getting over his trouble, he saw now for the first time what he had lost, and he carried Betsy's dear letter in his oxter pocket and was inconsolable.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Sandy was springin' aboot wi' his heid in his oxter, an' a' the laddies roarin' and lauchin' like to kill themsel's.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.