yegg

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Stranded Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"And your side partner with the Salvation Army coat on looks like a yegg man to me."

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)