To ask how to say 'under my oxter' in English?

[DeTwamps]

Armpit? Does that work?

Yes

Yes, although I can't imagine a need to use it outside of NornIron.

Yes I think that's what it means

I don't get the context. Had to look up the word and thought 'up to my elbows' but that's not what you mean, I don't think.

Am assuming you are Scottish/Ulsterish

My armpit?

Yep

Armpit works

Armpit just came to me while I was writing the post as I genuinely didn't know another name for it lol. I knew it had a different name, I just couldn't think of it.
Ok, nothing more to see here. Why the fuck am I so dopey!
Thanks

Oxter is similar to armpit, but I think there may be minor variations. Long time since I’ve heard the word ‘oxter’ though.

Dunno, never heard that word despite being northern. For animals, axilla is the word, cos it sounds a bit batshit saying armpit for a horse!

It's a great phrase and is meant for something tucked up under your arm. Like where one might carry a newspaper for example!

Armpit is the word, but in the context "under my oxter" is more colourful language!

I grew up saying oxter and as an adult always wondered where it came from. I learned a couple of weeks ago that armpit in Dutch and Afrikaans is oksel - only other languages that I have heard something similar!

Oh this reminds me of my lovely Belfast born nana. If ever she ate anything sour she said it would 'draw your arse up to your oxters'

I’m in NE Scotland, it’s a common word here, but mainly used by older people I know. My mum would say something like “I’m up to my oxters in housework, I’ll call you back”. A colleague who recently retired used to often say he had “sweaty oxters” on a hot day.

My Irish aunty says oxter. Something about washing them? I can't quite remember the whole phrase.

@TheDogsMother

I grew up saying oxter and as an adult always wondered where it came from. I learned a couple of weeks ago that armpit in Dutch and Afrikaans is oksel - only other languages that I have heard something similar!

Oxter: The armpit. From the Old English oxta or ohsta. The word oxter is used in certain areas of the world (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England), reminding us that there are many local and colloquial names for parts of the human anatomy.

www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25484

show us the sentence you would use it in. The colloqial equivalent may not be a literal translation.

Armpit

My mum says oxter and she's from southern Scotland (Dumfries)

It sounds from the context above like the phrase “tucked under his arm” would be used in the same situation, per pp. you wouldn’t use the word armpit in that situation, even if it is a direct translation.

Armpit
Saying oxter is common in Scotland. Tucking something under your oxter is putting it just under your armpit to hold it with your arm.
Also being up to your oxters in something like water, work, trouble 😀

its defo armpits

That’s what we say for armpits in NE Scotland!