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

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.

By your way of it, you’re Balfour of the Shaws; but for what I ken you may be Balfour of the Deevil’s oxter.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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)