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Mossback

Mossback Meaning & Definition
Mossback Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mossback?

[n] an elderly man

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mossback: antique | gaffer | old geezer | oldtimer | old-timer

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mossback: antediluvian | antique | back number | backwoodsman | bumpkin | clodhopper | conservationist | conservatist | conservative | dad | diehard | dodo | elder | fogy | fossil | fud | fuddy-duddy | granny | has-been | hayseed | hick | hillbilly | laudator temporis acti | longhair | matriarch | Methuselah | mid-Victorian | old believer | old crock | old dodo | old fogy | old liner | old man | old poop | old school | old woman | old-timer | patriarch | pop | pops | provincial | reactionary | regular old fogy | relic | rightist | right-winger | square | standpat | standpatter | starets | stick-in-the-mud | traditionalist | ultraconservative | yokel

See Also | graybeard | greybeard | Methuselah | old man

Mossback In Webster's Dictionary

\Moss"back`\, n. A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

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