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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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