Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A thief, especially a burglar or safecracker.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as yeggman.
Wiktionary
- n. cant, slang A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After the jump: The definition of "yegg"; teenagers are cruel and unbearable; mutants really seem to cheese people off; and other life lessons kids learn from comics.”
“You need to check in at yegg central for some new lines.”
“Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction was a genius, but the bubble that burst in Q4 was the result of 8 years of Bush economic policy that can be summed up thus: reckless deregulation.”
“Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction wa ...”
“Thus I gained a deep devotion for our language undented, and it drives me nearly batty when I hear my only child springing wads of hard boiled language such as dips and yegg-men use, and I want a reformation or”
“And is it likely that a baronet -- _with_ money, mind you -- is going to carry on the yegg business as a side line?”
“You can't believe that I'm not simply an ordinary yegg, like the rest of the crooks you used to know.”
“And what the devil do you want with Miss Chester, you slimy, crawling second-story-worker, you damned, oily yegg?" enquired”
“That's one of the most notorious yegg-men on the other side.”
“Ill tell you, George: Im a law-abiding man, but they do say Verg Gunch is a regular yegg, and of course hes bigger n I am, and I just cant figure out what Id do if he tried to force me into anything criminal!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yegg’.
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Another 250 Spelling Words
Another range of words from the intermediate to the advanced speller's level.
cherimoya, parthenogenesis, sommelier, bupkis, kichel, voulge, indivisibility, retiarius, sewellel, vihuela, ossature, jalfrezi and 238 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yabba, yabby, yachty, yad, yaff, yaffingale, yag, yager, yahrzeit, yair, yajna, yakhdan and 63 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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Real words that I love
Words that make me happy in my pants AND have a place in the dictionary.
enervate, efficacious, basilisk, minotaur, elfin, elephantine, schadenfreude, enigma, emasculate, acidic, appalling, ridiculous and 102 more...
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
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Willieb's Words
pusillanimous, exigible, extraneous, contemptible, banal, generic, secular, canard, acerbic, erudite, versus, atheist and 192 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Thimble Theater
Piquant phraseology from the daily strip that brought Popeye on the scene. Boy, those were the days
kidnapery, damp between the ..., croak someone, throw 'im to the ..., whiffle hen, hamgravy, I can't dope it!, fly-brained, worth a hundred c..., a few under the hat, yegg, those tropical dames and 91 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir cf. yeggman Jan 10, 2009
yarb Down round Corlear's Hook and Hell's Kitchen there were all these dives so dangerous that God-fearing citizens would shit to think of them - Cat Alley, the Lava Pit, the Tub of Blood - spawning grifters and shysters and banco artists, second-storey men, gun-molls and gangsters and lushes and hypos, hopheads, yeggs, sirens, dames...
- Elizabeth Young, Shrinking Sep 10, 2008
trivet safecracker / burglar / thief Apr 25, 2007
geekwad Curses on you for getting here first and congratulations, oplyse. I love this word. Jan 8, 2007