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Definition of mossback in English: mossbacknoun ˈmɒsbakˈmɔsbæk North American informal An old-fashioned or extremely conservative person. Example sentencesExamples - It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.
- But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.
- I thought that I was a ‘mossback’, but the LA Weekly's Doug Harvey has now convinced me that I am a crackpot!
Derivatives adjective North American informal Problem is you have two conservative guys reinforcing each other's most mossbacked notions. Example sentencesExamples - Well I am supposed to be the mossbacked Republican on this board!
- Eric has thanked everybody who has participated in the conversation, ‘even the most mossbacked grumbling conservatives.’
- They staged the most significant electoral challenges many of the state's mossbacked incumbents had ever faced.
- I have my mossbacked, Luddite doubts about the efficacy of some of these high-tech initiatives, but we shouldn't refuse to participate in the attempts.
Definition of mossback in US English: mossbacknounˈmôsbakˈmɔsbæk North American informal An old-fashioned or extremely conservative person. Example sentencesExamples - It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.
- I thought that I was a ‘mossback’, but the LA Weekly's Doug Harvey has now convinced me that I am a crackpot!
- But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.
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