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
Ye 'ill better come awa hame,' and sall, if a' hed kent what wes tae happen, a' wud hae taken him aff below ma oxter.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
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 George MacDonald
But afore ye hae time to turn roon' an' get at yer ain wark, the craitur'll be oot again an' awa' up to the hill wi' a buik aneath his oxter.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
