Synonyms for mossback

Grammar : Noun

Spell : maws-bak, mos-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɔsˌbæk, ˈmɒs-

Définition of mossback

Origin : "conservative," 1874, especially of poor whites from Carolina, originally (1872) in reference to those who hid out to avoid service in the Confederate army (and would have stayed out till the moss grew on their backs); from moss + back (n.).

noun old-fashioned person

Example sentences :

There is the "old" farmer, there is the "new" farmer, and there is the "mossback."
Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield

Every "new" farmer when full grown competes with every mossback.
Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield

The mossback cannot win, because he prefers a flintlock to a Mauser.
Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield

You cannot have the new farmer unless you also have the mossback.
Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield

Fig. 239 shows a mossback's house or cabin in the lake lands of Canada.
Extract from : « Shelters, Shacks and Shanties » by D.C. Beard

Especially was this true in dealing with the riverman's arch-enemy, the mossback.
Extract from : « The Rules of the Game » by Stewart Edward White

Bennington gave the details in less than a minute, then added, "Thanks, Mossback."
Extract from : « Take the Reason Prisoner » by John Joseph McGuire

They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it.
Extract from : « The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror » by Various

The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered something about "another of those pesky porkies."
Extract from : « Forest Neighbors » by William Davenport Hulbert

The mossback threw a stick of stove-wood at him, and he lumbered clumsily away across the snow.
Extract from : « Forest Neighbors » by William Davenport Hulbert

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