Noun: leppy
| Singular | leppy |
| Plural | leppies |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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Out on the range, he would have been a stunted leppy. [2003, American Cowboy, volume 10, number 4, page 90:]
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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." [1978, Sarah E. Olds, Twenty Miles From a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada, page 44:]
Nouns inflected like leppy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish lepra (“leprosy”). See: Spanish Nouns '
lepra'.