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oxter [ˈɒkstə]
n
Scot, Irish, and northern English dialect the armpit
[from Old English oxta; related to Old High German Ahsala, Latin axilla]
Translations
oxter [ˈɒkstəʳ] N (Scot) → axila f
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It's not until January but can you imagine the oxters and nerves combined.
Alison's diary by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Oxters, armpits; coyne, to turn; dunch, to collide; bullockers, ordinary marbles; glass allies, glass marbles; skeets, shoes, or to hurry, get your skeets on.
Up to wor oxters! by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
What a pointless affair it is, full of people spinning round, pushing, pulling, standing painfully on toes, falling backwards into each other's oxters, or thrusting limbs out in unlikely directions.
Victor Lewis-Smith's column: Art of the Mata by Lewis-Smith, Victor / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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