mossback

"I know that sort of crazy old mossback," muttered Welton as he turned down the mountain.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White
Two or three miles away was a little clearing where a mossback lived.
Forest Neighbors|William Davenport Hulbert
Again the mossback appeared in the doorway, shivering a little in his night-shirt.
Forest Neighbors|William Davenport Hulbert
But the asset side of our "mossback's" yearly balance sheet always made the liability side ashamed of itself.
Skookum Chuck Fables|Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)

The mossback, who according to popular belief hid himself in the woods until moss grew on his back, might or might not be a tory.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama|Walter L. Fleming

British Dictionary definitions for mossback

mossback

/ (ˈmɒsˌbæk) /

noun US and Canadian

an old turtle, shellfish, etc, that has a growth of algae on its back

informal a provincial or conservative person

Derived forms of mossback

mossbacked, adjective

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