mossback

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

mossbacks

1.
(US, informal)Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”).
Đồng nghĩa: conservative, reactionary, retrograde, traditionalist, mossyback
2.
(US, historical, informal)A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
3.
Senses relating to animals.

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Đồng nghĩa

conservativereactionary retrograde traditionalist mossyback

Cùng gốc / liên quan

mossbackeda rolling stone gathers no mossmossybackmossybacked

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Nguồn gốc từ

From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.