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Moss-trooper   /mɔs-trˈupər/   Listen
Moss-trooper

noun
1.
A marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland).





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"Moss-trooper" Quotes from Famous Books



... I give any attention to insulting letters, but I cannot refrain from paying my respects to one Byron Jassack Wales, who, with gray goose-quill for Pelian spear, charges down on the ICONOCLAST as blithely as a gay moss-trooper making an English swine-herd hard to catch. Such insults usually come unsigned—are simply crass insolence which their cowardly authors fear to father; but Byron sets down all the dreaful things he ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Moss-trooper" :   vulture, predator, marauder, piranha


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