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

He got his umberell in his oxter, an' the bag in his hand, an' then he fand roond juist to see if there was naething else he had forgotten.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

They say he is about to marry the daughter of Leddy Ashton; and let her leddyship get his head ance under her oxter, and see you if she winna gie his neck a thraw.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir