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Lippy vs Leppy - What's the difference?

lippy | leppy |

As nouns the difference between lippy and leppy

is that lippy is (colloquial) lipstick while leppy is (slang|us) a young animal, particularly a cow or bull, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

As an adjective lippy

is (informal) talking back, in a cheeky manner.

lippy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Talking back, in a cheeky manner.

    • Noun

  • (colloquial) lipstick
  • (colloquial) lip gloss

    • 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."