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yegging

yegging is the present participle and gerund of yegg.

Meaning of yegg

Verb

yegg (third-person singular simple present yeggs, present participle yegging, simple past and past participle yegged)

  1. (slang) To rob.
    • The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 10, in Diamonds Are Forever

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Questions about yegging

What is yegging the present participle and gerund of?
Yegging is the present participle and gerund of yegg.

Words near yegging in the dictionary

  1. Yefinhar
  2. Yefrem
  3. yeg
  4. yegg
  5. yegged
  6. yegging
  7. yeggman
  8. yeggmen
  9. yeggs
  10. Yeghegnadzor
  11. Yeghiazarian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yegging (page history and authors); yegg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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