Yegg vs Egg - What's the difference?
yegg | egg |
(cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
* 1904', Edwin S. Porter (director), ''Capture of the ‘'''Yegg ’ Bank Burglars
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* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 265:
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
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, title= Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
As nouns the difference between yegg and egg
is that yegg is a person who breaks open safes; a burglar while egg is an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.As a verb egg is
to throw eggs at.yegg
English
Alternative forms
* yegNoun
(en noun)- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg , a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- ‘These racketeers are a new type. We think about them the way we think about old time yeggs or needled-up punks.’
Synonyms
* safecracker * yeggmanAnagrams
*egg
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(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.