different between leppy vs dogie

English

Etymology

Spanish lepra (“leprosy”)

Pronunciation

Noun

leppy (plural leppies)

1. (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, p. 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, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 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, p. 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."

Synonyms

• bum calf
• bummer
• dogie

Finnish

Verb

leppy

1. Colloquial form of leppyi

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *leppä, possibly from Baltic. Cognates include Karelian proper leppä.

Noun

leppy

1. alder

English

Alternative forms

• dogey
• dogy

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?do??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dogie (plural dogies)

1. (US, regional, colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. [from 19th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 49:

     When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]

Synonyms

• bum calf
• bummer
• leppy (primarily in Spanish-speaking areas)

See also

• doggie

References

• WordNet 3.0, Princeton University

Anagrams

• Diego, diego, geoid