Definitions from Wiktionary (mossyback)
▸ noun: (informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
▸ noun: (informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
▸ noun: Senses relating to animals.
▸ noun: (fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.
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▸ noun: (informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
▸ noun: (informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
▸ noun: Senses relating to animals.
▸ noun: (fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.
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mossback,
stick in the mud,
old fogey,
fogey,
backwoodser,
woolly back,
young fogey,
crossback,
troglodyte,
backslider,
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