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What anatomists call "axilla"
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armpit
Alternative clues for the word armpit
Word definitions for armpit in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from arm (n.1) + pit (n.1). Arm-hole (early 14c.) was used in this sense but was obsolete by 18c. Colloquial armpit of the nation for any locale regarded as ugly and disgusting was in use by 1965.\n
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: axilla , axillary cavity , axillary fossa ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. 2 Somewhere or something considered unpleasant or undesirable.
Usage examples of armpit.
Though sweat is mostly water, it is the small amount of protein and fatty acids in the apocrine sweat glands that gives armpit sweat that wonderful milky or yellow color.
When we were as I judged out of assegai shot, I turned, with the water up to my armpits, and shouted some valedictory words.
They discovered themselves held up, each with a finger and thumb under the armpits, and with the perplexed brown eyes of young Caddles scanning their warm flushed faces.
She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a separate name to warn that they might not come true, and his lithe Parisian daughter of joy, beneath the eternal mirror, forswearing perfumes, capeskin to the armpits, all that is too easy, for his impoverishment and more worthy love.
I had puzzled my head for several hours as to what substitute I could find for tinder--the only thing I still lacked, and which I could not ask for under any pretense whatsoever--when I remembered that I had told the tailor to put some under the armpits of my coat to prevent the perspiration spoiling the stuff.
Not only does your milk taste of egg nog, so does your sexual lubricant and perspiration, especially in your armpits.
The fattish bloke turned to his friends, who were blissfully sniffing their armpits.
This was done by securing the main body of the chicken under your right armpit like a set of bagpipes and grabbing it high up its neck with your left hand so that its featherless head is held between forefinger and thumb.
He grabbed it as well as he could under the armpits, and he was twenty yards from the wreck when it exploded.
I told the landlord what had happened, and on taking off my great coat, I found it to be pierced in two places just below the armpit.
I slipped on the Bianchi holster and settled the blued Krait beneath my left armpit.
He got instead a disruptive intervention by brisk hands that first rolled him over, then latched his armpits in a grip like torture and peeled him up from the ground.
Rosa and Jose- fina lifted Lidia by the armpits and carried her as they tiptoed two or three times around the table.
Uncannily rapid for all the wall-eye, for all the glasses of rosso coming out of his armpits.
They fended hacking swords, pulled heathen shrieking to the ground, where they knifed them in the armpit, face, or groin.