leppy

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English

Etymology

From Spanish lepra (leprosy).

Pronunciation

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

Finnish

Verb

leppy

  1. Informal form of leppyi.

Livvi

Leppy.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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