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Wiktionary

  1. n. slang (US) A young animal, particularly a cow or bull, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Western U. S. A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. motherless calf in a range herd of cattle

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish lepra (leprosy). (Wiktionary)

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  • “Foran's avoids this by not dressing up in any fashion, replacing the inflatable leppy with murky class.”

    joegood Diary Entry

  • “If a calf loses its mother while very young it is called a "leppy.”

    Arizona Sketches

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  1. dogie
  1. dogy
  1. dogey

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  1. calf

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