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Mossback

noun
1.
An extremely old-fashioned conservative.





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"Mossback" Quotes from Famous Books



... her to a dance one night, A mossback gave the bidding; Silver Jack bossed the shebang And Big Dan played the fiddle. We danced and drank, the livelong night. With fights between the dancing— Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch And ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various
... roofing. Come vacation I'm goin' ter put the twins to scrapin' them pesky mossback shingles; then I may go with the tide and buy me a ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... I've been turning over in my mind for the last six months—and when George's letter came I decided to put it through. I went to New York and had Sterry, a corporation lawyer, draw it up. I'm going to prove I'm not a mossback. It will ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


Words linked to "Mossback" :   conservativist, conservative


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