leppy

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leppy

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From Spanish lepra (“leprosy”).

noun leppies

US, slang A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned. 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.
Similar: bum calf, bummer, dogie

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@misc{leppy_2026,
  title = {leppy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leppy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}