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leppy

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Definitions

  1. motherless calf in a range herd of cattle

Word origin

From Spanish lepra (“leprosy”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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."

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