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

There the discarded lemon can be stuffed with colorful yegg and luscious tomato, wrapped in the right sort of cabbage, and served to the public as something called a rehash.

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

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 Kemp, Harry