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Mossback

noun
1.
An extremely old-fashioned conservative.





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"Mossback" Quotes from Famous Books



... no grass grow under his feet neither. I been talkin' to old wooden head here about the railroad comin' in." Tom's eyes twinkled. His friend guessed that he was trying to get a rise out of the old-timer. "He's sure some mossback. I been tellin' him the railroad's comin' through here an' Meeker right soon, but he can't see it. I reckon the toot of an engine would scare him ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine


Words linked to "Mossback" :   conservative, conservativist


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