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Definition of Mossbacks
1. mossback [n] - See also: mossback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossbacks
Literary usage of Mossbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health & Wealth by Elbert Hubbard (1908)
"... any petty cross-roads, with its lodge-room over the grocery, would contain a
Herbert Spencer; the agrarian mossbacks would have wisdom by the scruff and ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
""There's three or four mossbacks in the lot that are honest," cut in Welton, "but
it's because they're too thick-headed to be anything else. ..."
3. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"With fights between the dancing — Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch And sent
the mossbacks prancing. Bung yer eye: bung yer eye. ..."
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