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

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

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

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

An' he stands wi' his thooms i' the oxter holes o' his weyscot, an' lauchs, an' says, "Tyuch; naething ava; no wirth speakin' aboot," when I tell them hoo big I am aboot it.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.