The English word oxter means armpit, and to oxtercog someone is to carry them by the armpits. The term derives from the image of each of two people locking one shoulder under an armpit of the person carried, like a cog fitting into a wheel. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Oxter and Oxtercog”
Grant, you probably know and many of our nerdier listeners know that the word oxter, O-X-T-E-R, means armpit.
Yes.
I knew that, but I didn’t know the term oxtercog, which is a verb.
Oxtercog?
Oxtercog.
Does it mean to row, maybe? Or I don’t even know.
It’s a good guess, but no, to oxtercog someone means to carry them out by their armpits.
Oh.
Yeah, it’s a Northern Irish term, and it comes from the idea of a cog and locking one shoulder into the other person’s armpit like a cog fitting into a wheel.
Oh, oxtercog.
Oxtercog, yeah.
Yeah.
He was oxtercogged right out of the bar.
Exactly.
I love that word.
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