Full definition of leppy
Noun
- (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."----
