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

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Armpit? Does that work?

Agree if it's carrying, tucked under arm is what I'd say.
Tucked in your armpit wouldn't be quite right!

Not heard oxter before, good word.

'Also being up to your oxters in something like water, work, trouble' - I'd say up to your neck in those things, eyeballs for work if v bad!

This thread has cleared up a mystery; neighbour said she had carried something in her oxter, she did not mean oxtail.

"Tucked up under your arm" would probably work.

Armpit just doesn't have the same ring to it. It sounds vaguely unhygienic

Yes I'm from Scotland now living in England and my colleagues thought this word was hilarious when I first used it. It's a very common word in Scotland for armpit.

It’s not pronounced Ox-ters as in cow type creature more oak-ters like the tree

Axilla

I thought she said Oaster, and Oxtail was the nearest I could think of.

Pronouced ox-thers where I come from

Yes, it means armpit. Was certainly used in the north-east- I remember my grandad saying it.

I didn't actually know you needed another word for oxters, you live and learn my English brothers and sisters

Pronounced ox-ters where I am from.

Ox(as in the animal) t (as in twitter/tea) er (as in 'to err is human').

Ox-ter.

Commonly used in scotland.

Yeah you definitely wouldn’t put something “in your armpit” - sounds like you are sticking it somewhere sweaty. “Under your arm” is fine.

And it’s up to your eyeballs in work.

I'm Scottish and I thought oxter was the proper terminology I didn't realise it was just a Scottish/Irish thing....I usually say armpit though

I’m from Newcastle and always called my armpits my oxters (pronounced ox-ters)

In Staffordshire, the trendy adolescents getting down wiv des kidz just refer to it as a Yout-Oxter.

Love that, WeBuilt! Fear it will fly over the heads of those not residing in Staffs, though...

Lol, the context was trying to explain to someone over the phone where I had a pain! In my head, my armpit, is the actual pit of it - where the hair grows - eugh. But me oxter, is the general area under yer oxter lol! I didn't want to say to the upper left hand side of my left tit - under my arm. But to say armpit wasn't quite hitting the spot anyway. In the heel of the hunt, I just said I had a pain on my upper left side under my arm. They probably figured I had a pain in me elbow or something, but anyway. Pain gone now.

Ah, my lovely dad was very fond of the word oxter. Particularly in the context of 'oxter-cogged'. As in 'did you watch the rugby? Did you see that tackle, the fella was knocked clean out and had to be oxter - cogged off the pitch when he came round a bit'. (Although in fairness, these days he'd have been taken off on a stretcher...)

I've also heard "she had legs up to her oxters!" as in very long legs.

So say you're carrying a newspaper under your oxter - do you say in England - he was carrying a newspaper under his arm? because to me that could be anywhere lol

Is it even an English word? Is it slang or regional? Everyone where I'm from (Ireland) knows what it is, but I suspect English people wouldn't know what/where it is. But I haven't thought of a word that accurately describes it lol.

It's kind of not quite in your armpit, just a little bit further down from there. That make sense?

Yes OP, he would be carrying the newspaper under his arm.

I’m up to my oxters means I am really busy.