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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang, US) 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.
Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy.
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."
Use leppy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leppy means (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned..
Common synonyms include bum calf, bummer, dogie, dogy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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