Leppy - What does it mean?
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(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."