yoxter
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]yoxter (plural yoxters)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A convict returned from transportation before his time.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
- […] U was an Uptucker, fly with the cord; / V was a Varnisher, dressed like a lord; / Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary