leppy

English

Etymology

From Spanish lepra (“leprosy”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

leppy (plural leppies)

1. (slang, US) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
   • 2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, page 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, volume 10, number 4, page 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, page 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."

Synonyms

• bum calf
• bummer
• dogie

Finnish

Verb

leppy

1. Informal form of leppyi.

Livvi

Leppy.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Estonian lepp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲepːy/
• Hyphenation: lep‧py
• Rhymes: -epːy

Noun

leppy (genitive lepän, partitive leppiä)

1. alder

Declension

Declension of leppy (Type 7/leppy, pp-p gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	leppy	lepät
genitive	lepän	lepiin
partitive	leppiä	leppii
illative	leppäh	leppiih
inessive	lepäs	lepiis
elative	lepäspäi	lepiispäi
allative	lepäle	lepiile
adessive	lepäl	lepiil
ablative	lepälpäi	lepiilpäi
translative	lepäkse	lepiikse
essive	lepänny	lepiinny
abessive	lepättäh	lepiittäh
comitative	lepänke	lepiinke
instructive		lepiin
prolative	lepäči

References

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “leppy”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN