Definitions for mossbacks

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mossbacks moss·back

Spelling: [maws-bak, mos-]

IPA: /ˈmɔsˌbæk, ˈmɒs-/

Mossbacks is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in mossbacks (abckmosss).

Definitions for mossbacks

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.
5. Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
6. an old turtle.
7. Angling. a large and old fish, as a bass.
8. a wild bull or cow.

Origin of mossbacks

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

Examples for mossbacks

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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