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Mossback   Listen
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Mossback  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.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mossback" Quotes from Famous Books



... tie an animal or in mounting after it was untied—any one of these things happening meant death, unless the cow-hunter could save himself with a quick and accurate shot. Indeed the boys so loved this work and were so proud of their skill, that when an unusually vicious old "mossback" was encountered, each strove to be the first catch and master him. And God knows they should have loved it, as must any man with real red blood coursing through his veins, for it was not work; I libel it to call it work; it was rather sport, ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson



Words linked to "Mossback" :   conservative, conservativist



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