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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

mossback
    n 1: an extremely old-fashioned conservative

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mossback \Moss"back`\, n.
   A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion
   that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with
   moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]
   [1913 Webster] Mossbanker

Thesaurus Results for Mossback:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, backwoodsman, bumpkin, clodhopper, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, dad, diehard, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, laudator temporis acti, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old school, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, provincial, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, right-winger, rightist, square, standpat, standpatter, starets, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, ultraconservative, yokel

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