mossback

3 definitions found

mossback - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mossback \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.]
     [1913 Webster] Mossbanker

mossback - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mossback
      n 1: an extremely old-fashioned conservative

mossback - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "mossback":
     Methuselah, 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, 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, right-winger, rightist,
     square, standpat, standpatter, starets, stick-in-the-mud,
     traditionalist, ultraconservative, yokel