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

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

The yegg raised an expostulatory hand, but Terry went on: "I'm going to keep straight, Denver."

From Black Jack by Brand, Max