mossback
Example Sentences
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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
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
Says Kitchin: "I'm a conservative, but not a mossback."
From Time Magazine Archive
At any rate he looked so lonesome and forlorn that the mossback felt a little thrill of pity for him, and decided not to kill him after all, but to drive him away again.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert
