yegg

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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

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

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

And is it likely that a baronet—with money, mind you—is going to carry on the yegg business as a side line?

From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)