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Synonyms & Antonyms 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 for mossback
- antediluvian,
- Colonel Blimp,
- dodo,
- fogy
- (also fogey),
- fossil,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- reactionary,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stuffed shirt
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The first known use of mossback was in 1853
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