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
A masterpiece of bamboozlement, Catch Me is a kind of catch-22 between rival and riven U.S. agencies, written in a style that ranges from hardest-boiled yegg to souffl�, with nothing poached.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stranded Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg.
From Time Magazine Archive
I always knew some yegg would stroll in that way.
From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
