Found 2 items, similar to Kelpy.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: kelpy kelpy n : (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: kelpie]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Kelpy Kelpie \Kel"pie\, Kelpy \Kel"py\, n.; pl. Kelpies. [Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.] (Scotch Myth.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]