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

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DeTwamps · 28/01/2020 22:13

Armpit? Does that work?

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GetUpAgain · 29/01/2020 07:09

Lol at Staffordshire!

OP hope the pain stays away.

WateryFowls · 29/01/2020 07:38

My mother used to pull my school tights up to my oxters (Irish). Never say armpits.

Willow2017 · 29/01/2020 07:42

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

Not where i live in Scotland, its pronounced ox-ters.
Definately your armpit nothing else.

Clangus00 · 29/01/2020 07:54

We pronounce it like “oaksters” here in Ayrshire.

dementedma · 29/01/2020 08:44

Yes, oxters in Central Scotland, and dds tall flatmate definitely has legs ip to her oxters! Op, i love the phrase " in the heel of the hunt". Never heard that before.

Minty82 · 29/01/2020 13:02

I grew up saying oxters- my dad’s from Scotland and we also spent a lot of time in NI. Didn’t learn the word armpit till I was about 10 and thought it was a bit rude! Still say oxters now, ie when drying my kids after a bath, as it’s the word that comes naturally, but it sounds a bit odd in the context of my RP accent!

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