mossyback

Noun

Meaning

(informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
Synonyms: conservative, reactionary, retrograde, traditionalist

(informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)

Senses relating to animals.
(fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.

(obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.

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