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leppies

leppies is the plural of leppy.

Meaning of leppy

Noun

leppy (plural leppies)

  1. (US, slang) A young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
    • 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.2006, Paula Morin, Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin, page 105
    Synonyms:
    bum calf, bummer, dogie

Questions about leppies

What is leppies the plural of?
Leppies is the plural of leppy.

Words near leppies in the dictionary

  1. Lepp
  2. lepper
  3. leppers
  4. Leppert
  5. Lepperts
  6. leppies
  7. Leppington
  8. Leppo
  9. Leppos
  10. Lepps
  11. leppy

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