This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Oxter!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word…
O
xter:
It sounds like a mythological animal that’s a mix of an ox and an otter. But it isn’t. Though, it might be just as smelly. Oxter is actually an antiquated word for your armpit.
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mirthful lexemes here.
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