Definitions for mossback

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mossback moss·back

Spelling: [maws-bak, mos-]

IPA: /ˈmɔsˌbæk, ˈmɒs-/

Mossback is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in mossback (abckmoss).

Definitions for mossback

noun

1. Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
2. an old turtle.
3. Angling. a large and old fish, as a bass.
4. a wild bull or cow.

Origin of mossback

An Americanism dating back to 1870-75; moss + back¹

Examples for mossback

The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered something about "another of those pesky porkies."

Especially was this true in dealing with the riverman's arch-enemy, the mossback.

Bennington gave the details in less than a minute, then added, "Thanks, mossback."

Every "new" farmer when full grown competes with every mossback.

The mossback threw a stick of stove-wood at him, and he lumbered clumsily away across the snow.

The mossback cannot win, because he prefers a flintlock to a Mauser.

There is the "old" farmer, there is the "new" farmer, and there is the "mossback."

You cannot have the new farmer unless you also have the mossback.

They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it.

Fig. 239 shows a mossback's house or cabin in the lake lands of Canada.