leppy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
leppy (plural leppies)
- (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow or bull, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
- 2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, p. 105:
- When those big bands take off, the mares never come back for those leppies. We were branding one time and saw a little bunch move out and a mom left a leppy behind.
- 2003, American Cowboy, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 90:
- Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.
- 1978, Sarah E. Olds, Twenty Miles From a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada, p. 44:
- I have heard a famous rodeo announcer crack the same old joke every year, "A leppy is a little calf whose ma has died, and whose pa has run away with another cow."
- 2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, p. 105:
Finnish
Verb
leppy
- Colloquial form of leppyi
Livvi
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., possibly from Baltic. Cognates include Karelian proper leppä.
Noun
leppy