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

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)

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 Maclaren, Ian