'Mossback' definitions:
Definition of 'mossback'
From: WordNet
noun
An extremely old-fashioned conservative
Definition of 'Mossback'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Synonyms of 'mossback'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Methuselah,
- 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