单词 | lepper |
释义 | lepper|ˈlɛpə(r)| A local variant of leaper, freq. of horses in hunting parlance.
1907J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 66 There you are! Good jumper! Grand lepper. 1920Baily's Mag. Jan. 37/2 There are plenty of ‘leppers’ at Newmarket this season. 1931A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle i. ii. 41 We'll kick off on the leppers. All aboard for the Donegal Hunt. 1937R. Westerby Wide Boys Never Work 173 ‘I put a couple of nicker on Tenderloin. He's a good lepper at that.’..‘Got all the jargon, haven't you? ‘Good lepper’!—strewth!’ 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 362 Among American horse fanciers a jumping horse is called a lepper. |

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