leppy
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leppy (plural leppies)
- (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."
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leppy
- Informal form of leppyi.
Livvi edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Estonian lepp.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
leppy (genitive lepän, partitive leppiä)
Declension edit
| 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 edit
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “leppy”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN