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Leppy

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned. US, slang

    "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."

  2. 2
    motherless calf in a range herd of cattle wordnet

Etymology

From Spanish lepra (“leprosy”).

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