mossback

mossback

noun

Definition of MOSSBACK

a person with old-fashioned ideas <those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed>

Synonyms antediluvian, Colonel Blimp, dodo, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, mossback, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt

Related Words conservative, rightist, Tory; mandarin, old hand, old-timer, veteran; old maid

Near Antonyms liberal, progressive, radical

Antonyms hipster, modern, trendy