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Lamb vs Leppy - What's the difference?

lamb | leppy |

As a proper noun lamb

is .

As a noun leppy is

(slang|us) a young animal, particularly a cow or bull, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

lamb

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A young sheep.
  • The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
  • (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
  • A simple, unsophisticated person.
  • (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

    • Derived terms

    * lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * lamblike * lamb's lettuce * lamb's tongue * lambswool

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a sheep, to give birth.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.
    • The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

    Anagrams

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    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."