leppy

Spanish lepra (“leprosy”)

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leppy (plural leppies)

1. (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
   • 2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, page 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, volume 10, number 4, page 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, page 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."

• bum calf
• bummer
• dogie

leppy

1. Informal form of leppyi.

From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Estonian lepp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲepːy/
• Hyphenation: lep‧py
• Rhymes: -epːy

leppy (genitive lepän, partitive leppiä)

1. alder

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), “leppy”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN