yegg

• I mean someone who operated within the letter of the law, but outside its spirit - former treasury secretary Henry Paulson, say, for liberating banks from the need to back their loans with assets, or Merrill Lynch's John Thain, for redecorating his office while his employees lost their jobs, or ... fill in the name of the Wall Street yegg you love to hate. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• 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 I'll stroke you with my shoes. —  Rippling Rhymes
• A jeweler by trade, he fell from his high estate and went on the road as a yegg. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
• And look here: don't you get the notion in your bean I'm just some little old two-by-four guy of a yegg or some poor nut of a dip. —  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
• My companion tramps cursed the yegg and his ways They're always raisin' hell ... an' we git the blame ... when all we want is not loot, but hand-outs and a cup o' coffee ... and a piece of change now and then The yegg, the tiger among tramps--the criminal tramp--despises the ordinary bum and the "gaycat." —  Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative

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