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Yegg vs Tegg - What's the difference?

yegg | tegg |

As nouns the difference between yegg and tegg

is that yegg is a person who breaks open safes; a burglar while tegg is a sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.

yegg

English

Alternative forms

* yeg

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
  • * 1904', Edwin S. Porter (director), ''Capture of the ‘'''Yegg ’ Bank Burglars
  • *
    • 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.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 265:
    • ‘These racketeers are a new type. We think about them the way we think about old time yeggs or needled-up punks.’

    Synonyms

    * safecracker * yeggman

    Anagrams

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    tegg

    English

    Noun

  • A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.

    • References

    * The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000, updated in 2009, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company)