yeggman

American  

[yeg-muhn] / ˈjɛg mən /

noun

Older Slang.

• yeggmen
  plural

1. yegg.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• yeggmen
  plural

Etymology

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

See Examples For:

yeggman yeggmen

If you can't hear a yeggman working right next to your sleeping-quarters, how do you expect me to hear him, 'way over to White Lodge?

From Mystery Ranch by Chapman, Arthur

"There is your yeggman - at work," he said.

From The Poisoned Pen by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

You are not really a yeggman, or a hobo.

From A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts by Carter, Nicholas

It wasn't any chance job—the work of a fly-by-night tramp or yeggman.

From Mystery Ranch by Chapman, Arthur

He looked like a yeggman working night shift.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

The afternoon was wholly before them, and who could tell what change of plans the two yeggmen might make before the coming of the night?

From The Aeroplane Boys Flight A Hydroplane Roundup by Langworthy, John Luther

Perhaps, too, she may have carried quite a good-sized amount of money about her person, and wished to be in a condition to keep yeggmen from robbing her by day or by night.

From Afloat on the Flood by Leslie, Lawrence J.

During that time he met by accident a friend who made a hobby of studying yeggmen and criminals and occasionally doing a bit of the amateur tramp act himself.

From Courts and Criminals by Train, Arthur Cheney

I believe now we've all had our experiences with tramps and yeggmen of the Weary Willie species.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Douglas, Alan

One afternoon I see Scanlan and Miss Vincent whisperin' together like yeggmen outside a postoffice.

From Kid Scanlan by Witwer, H. C. (Harry Charles)