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
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 J. B. Salmond
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 Sir Walter Scott
"There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter," said Mr. Kernan sententiously.
From Dubliners by James Joyce
