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单词 mossback
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Definition of mossback in English:

mossback

noun ˈmɒsbakˈmɔsbæk
North American informal
  • An old-fashioned or extremely conservative person.

    〈北美,非正式〉极端守旧的人;老古董,老顽固

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.
    • But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.
    • I thought that I was a ‘mossback’, but the LA Weekly's Doug Harvey has now convinced me that I am a crackpot!

Derivatives

  • mossbacked

  • adjective
    North American informal
    • Problem is you have two conservative guys reinforcing each other's most mossbacked notions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Well I am supposed to be the mossbacked Republican on this board!
      • Eric has thanked everybody who has participated in the conversation, ‘even the most mossbacked grumbling conservatives.’
      • They staged the most significant electoral challenges many of the state's mossbacked incumbents had ever faced.
      • I have my mossbacked, Luddite doubts about the efficacy of some of these high-tech initiatives, but we shouldn't refuse to participate in the attempts.

Definition of mossback in US English:

mossback

nounˈmôsbakˈmɔsbæk
North American informal
  • An old-fashioned or extremely conservative person.

    〈北美,非正式〉极端守旧的人;老古董,老顽固

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.
    • I thought that I was a ‘mossback’, but the LA Weekly's Doug Harvey has now convinced me that I am a crackpot!
    • But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.
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