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
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
Stranded Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the yegg is just a softie under his shell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joe caught Boston Frank's eye and forthwith pushed himself alongside the yegg.
From The Trail of the Tramp by Livingston, Leon Ray
