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 Salmond, J. B.

Sandy was springin' aboot wi' his heid in his oxter, an' a' the laddies roarin' and lauchin' like to kill themsel's.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

There was a wee wifie row'd up in a blanket, Nineteen times as high as the moon; And what she did there I canna declare, For in her oxter she bure the sun.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert