mossyback (English, noun)
expansion: mossyback (plural mossybacks)
expansion: (chiefly US)
Senses:
glosses: A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
tags: US
informal
glosses: Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”).
tags: US
historical
informal
obsolete
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
tags: US
obsolete
glosses: Senses relating to animals.
The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.
tags: US
obsolete
Forms:
form: mossybacks
tags: plural