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mossback

noun as in old-fashioned person

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"I know that sort of crazy old mossback," muttered Welton as he turned down the mountain.

Two or three miles away was a little clearing where a mossback lived.

Again the mossback appeared in the doorway, shivering a little in his night-shirt.

But the asset side of our "mossback's" yearly balance sheet always made the liability side ashamed of itself.

The mossback, who according to popular belief hid himself in the woods until moss grew on his back, might or might not be a tory.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mossback, such as: conservative, fuddy-duddy, square, and old fogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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