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Eppy vs Leppy - What's the difference?

eppy | leppy |

As nouns the difference between eppy and leppy

is that eppy is an epileptic shock while leppy is a young animal, particularly a cow or bull, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

eppy

English

Noun

(eppies)
  • (colloquial) An epileptic shock
  • (colloquial, by extension) A tantrum or outburst.

    • leppy

    English

    Noun

    (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."