yeggman
Americannoun
plural
yeggmenEtymology
Origin of yeggman
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; apparently yegg + -man, though the appearance of yegg as an independent word is later
Example Sentences
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The modern ‘yeggman,’ however, is often an inartistic, untidy workman, for it frequently happens that when the door suddenly parts company with the safe it takes the front of the building with it.
From Scientific American
He had been thinking this over, however, and concluded that it hardly stood to reason that such desperate characters as these two, one an escaped reform school inmate and the other a yeggman tramp, would be entirely without some means of defence.
From Project Gutenberg
If you have camp fire and blanket, night in the wilds knows nothing of the satyr-faced spirit of evil, sand-bagger and yeggman, that stalks the town.
From Project Gutenberg
It wasn't any chance job—the work of a fly-by-night tramp or yeggman.
From Project Gutenberg
"Why, you 're no tramp—you're a yeggman," said Lowell to the prisoner, interrupting voluble protestations of innocence.
From Project Gutenberg
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