different between oxter vs oater

English

Etymology

Apparently from Middle English *oxtere, *oxte, from Old English ?xta, ?hsta, related to Old English ?xn (“armpit”), Old English eax (“axis, axle”) and eaxl (“shoulder”). See also axis and axon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kst?(?)/

Noun

oxter (plural oxters)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The armpit. [from 15th c.]
   • , Episode 12: The Cyclops,

     And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, […]

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 90:

     ‘It's a small beast,’ he said. ‘I could carry it under my oxter.’

Verb

oxter (third-person singular simple present oxters, present participle oxtering, simple past and past participle oxtered)

1. (transitive) To hug with the arms, or support by taking the arm of.

References

Anagrams

• extro-, retox

English

Etymology

oat +? -er (“Variety -er”). ~1945-50, alluding to the fodder for horses, which are common in the movies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Homophone: odor (some dialects)

Noun

oater (plural oaters)

1. (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
   • 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera, in Life,

     In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. In essence it is the American morality play. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of Yellow Sky. This is a $1,450,000 western with big-name stars (Gregory Peck, Anne Bancroft, Richard Widmark) and technical talent from 20th Century's top drawer, but is basically a typical oater.

   • 1995, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion,

     By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and perhaps a bouncing-ball sing-along. There were, to be sure, degrees of the oater; a somewhat more subtle version, designed for adult as well as child viewing, was also made.

Synonyms

• horse opera, oat opera

See also

• soap opera
• sudser

Anagrams

• Erato, orate