yegg
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, though, past and present combinations commingle in the mind, leaving men to huddle in the cold like hapless burglars while waiting for the frozen-fingered deciphering of the head yegg.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2012
But the yegg is just a softie under his shell.
From Time Magazine Archive
North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for a series of cartoons, showing Tammany as a little yegg in a tiger-striped sweater, Mr. Hearst subsequently published nothing very damaging to the Brown Derby.
From Time Magazine Archive
My companion tramps cursed the yegg and his ways....
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
