mossback
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In true mossback fashion, he bought a plot of land on a particularly damp section of the island because he loved the rain.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
To the passengers, most railroaders are mossback operators who neglect service while engaging in a never-ending round of raising fares, chopping schedules and eliminating branch lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rausch's six-month rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback.
From Time Magazine Archive
South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered something about "another of those pesky porkies."
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert
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