Definitions for oxter

oxter ox·ter

Spelling: [ok-ster]
IPA: /ˈɒk stər/

Oxter is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in oxter (eortx).

Definitions for oxter

noun

  1. the armpit.

Origin of oxter

1490-1500; akin to Old English ōcusta armpit, Old Norse (h)ōstr throat

Examples for oxter

The "oxter" is crooked because the arm is engaged carrying them.

So Tammy and I had to oxter her out between us, and deliver the howdie herself—safe in at her own door.

O'Grady drank a couple of naggins, put the pipes under his oxter (arm-pit) and said, "I'm ready to go with ye now."

To those who know not the pipes, the feel of the bag in the oxter is a gaiety lost.

I'll look for ye comin' up the street next week wi' the charts under your oxter and your lad wi' ye.'

Then Paruig pushed the bag further into his oxter, and the tune changed.

With the bell carefully tucked under his oxter he gave forth his news in a rasping voice that broke now and again into a squeal.

"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.

He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then wedges it tight in his oxter.

And as she said this, she held up her oxter, as if to tak me below't.

Word Value for oxter
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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