Outer vs Oxter - What's the difference?
outer | oxter |
Outside; external.
Farther from the centre of the inside.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 An outer part.
*
The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bullseye.
A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
(wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.
Someone who admits to something publicly.
Someone who outs another.
One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
An ouster; dispossession.
(chiefly, Scotland, Ireland) The armpit.
* , 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 .’
As nouns the difference between outer and oxter
is that outer is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly while oxter is (chiefly|scotland|ireland) the armpit.As an adjective outer
is outside; external.outer
English
Etymology 1
Comparative of out by analogy with inner.Adjective
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Antonyms
* innerNoun
(en noun)- We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.