Word.ws English Dictionary

yoxters

yoxters is the plural of yoxter.

Meaning of yoxter

Noun

yoxter (plural yoxters)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A convict returned from transportation before his time.
    • […] 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.1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60

Questions about yoxters

What is yoxters the plural of?
Yoxters is the plural of yoxter.

Words near yoxters in the dictionary

  1. yoxed
  2. yoxes
  3. Yoxford
  4. yoxing
  5. yoxter
  6. yoxters
  7. Yoy
  8. Yoyetewa
  9. yoyo
  10. yoyoed
  11. Yoyogi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yoxters (page history and authors); yoxter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yoxters.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yoxters. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.