mossbackn.

Brit.

/ˈmɒsbak/, U.S.

/ˈmɔsˌbæk/,

/ˈmɑsˌbæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moss n.¹, back n.¹

Etymology: < moss n.¹ + back n.¹ Compare earlier mossyback n.In sense 2a, application to the largemouth bass may allude to the fish's dark green back colour. Compare moss bass n. at moss n.¹ Compounds 2a.

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).

a. U.S. historical. A person who hid during the American Civil War to avoid conscription, esp. for the Southern army. See also mossyback n. 3.

ΚΠ

1865 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 10 June ‘Mossbacks’..are men who from one cause or another have refused to join either side, and to avoid the conscript acts have ‘laid out’ in the woods most of the time during the war.

1890 Cent. Dict. 3869/3 Moss-back,..in the southern United States, during the civil war, one who hid himself to avoid conscription.

1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 24 355 They acquired the soubriquet of ‘mossbacks’, the idea being that they had run in the woods and had lain out long enough for moss to grow on their backs.

b. A slow, rustic, or old-fashioned person; one attached to antiquated ideas; (hence) an extreme conservative; a reactionary. See also mossyback n. 2.In early use often denoting farmers of the southern and western States of the United States (see quot. 1888).

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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > opponent of change

Tory1712

old school1749

conservatist1831

conservative1832

fossil1844

mossback1873

stand-patter1902

old school tie1920

passéist1921

pastist1921

auntie1953

old schooler1964

Luddite1970

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned

mumpsimus1573

fogram1760

fogey1792

fogramite1813

frump1817

primitist1818

foist1820

Rip Van Winkle1833

foozle1860

old-timer1860

mossyback1865

mossback1873

dugout1912

pterodactyl1921

unhip1936

fud1942

square1944

primitivist1975

retread1982

1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves from Louisiana Swamp Doctor 181 Here you sit, like a knot in a tree, with the moss commencing to grow on your back.]

1873 Logansport (Indiana) Weekly Jrnl. 13 Dec. 2/1 That glorious anniversary, so dear to the mossbacks in this State.

1874 Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Mich.) 12 Mar. 6/5 We..have often used the term ‘mossback’ as applied to farmer and settler in the backwoods.

1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. viii Mossback, a settler; a homesteader; a pioneer farmer. (Western.)

1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 5 Mar. 2/3 Everybody rejoices over the passage of the bill... We say everybody—we except a few intense mossbacks, who were known during the war as copperheads.

1888 America 18 Oct. 16 Mossback..seems to have originated in the swamps of North Carolina, where a particular class of the poor whites were said to have lived among the cypress until the moss had grown on their backs.

1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages i. 10 I was becoming such a mossback that I had almost stopped reading the papers.

1935 E. Pound Let. 28 Jan. (1971) 266 With De Vechii at Ministry of Education there wd. be more chance of action than with some aesthetic mossback, sentimentalizing over Dela Crusca.

1959 W. A. Leising Arctic Wings 97 I listened to old mossbacks, prospectors, and trappers.

1973 ‘Trevanian’ Loo Sanction 211 The moss-backs of the National Gallery had pulled off quite a coup in securing the Marini Horse for a one-day exhibition.

1991 Newsweek 23 Dec. 22/1 With party mossbacks on one side and radical reformers on the other, he would be the indispensable centrist.

†c. A person covered in moss; (in quot. humorously, as a character in a performance) someone supposed to have risen from the grave, and hence out of touch with modern life. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun] > one who is

risera1631

resurgent1763

resuscitate1814

mossback1876

resurrect1892

1876 S. McCracken Michigan & Centennial 149 A burlesque performance closed the day's festivities, in which the ‘Moss Backs’ made their appearance, direct from the wilds of the ‘Hartz mountains’, where they say they have been buried for over a hundred years.

a. Angling. Originally: a large, old fish, esp. one with algae growing on its back (see quot. 1890). In later use often: spec. the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (also called moss bass). Cf. mossyback n. 1.

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. Mossback,..A large and old fish, as a bass: so called by anglers, in allusion to the growth of seaweed, etc., which may be found on its back.

1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish of South i. 3 Large-mouthed Black Bass... Mossback.

1946 Democrat 22 Aug. 2/2 Describing in detail how the big moss-backs fought,..he devoted the remainder of his story [etc.].

1949 L. S. Caine N. Amer. Fresh-water Sport Fish ii. 16 Largemouth... Colloquial Names..Mossback [etc.].

b. A turtle, esp. a snapping turtle ( Chelydra serpentina), with algae growing on its shell.

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1930 Bot. Gaz. 89 374 Most people are familiar with the term ‘moss back’ as applied to the common snapping turtle.

1943 W. L. McAtee Addit. Dial. Grant County, Indiana 2 Mossback,..a turtle, usually, if not always, a snapper, with a growth of algae and other water plants on its carapace.

1943 Amer. Midland Naturalist 29 266 The common name ‘moss-back’ refers to the luxuriant, obliterative mat of firmly attached algae..that flourishes on the backs and on the upper parts of the tails of many individuals.

1958 Ecology 39 634/1 The mossback condition, common among the fresh-water turtles of North America, results from the growth of filamentous green algae on the shell.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mossback
释义	mossbackn. Brit. /ˈmɒsbak/, U.S. /ˈmɔsˌbæk/, /ˈmɑsˌbæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moss n.¹, back n.¹ Etymology: < moss n.¹ + back n.¹ Compare earlier mossyback n.In sense 2a, application to the largemouth bass may allude to the fish's dark green back colour. Compare moss bass n. at moss n.¹ Compounds 2a. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. a. U.S. historical. A person who hid during the American Civil War to avoid conscription, esp. for the Southern army. See also mossyback n. 3. ΚΠ 1865 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 10 June ‘Mossbacks’..are men who from one cause or another have refused to join either side, and to avoid the conscript acts have ‘laid out’ in the woods most of the time during the war. 1890 Cent. Dict. 3869/3 Moss-back,..in the southern United States, during the civil war, one who hid himself to avoid conscription. 1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 24 355 They acquired the soubriquet of ‘mossbacks’, the idea being that they had run in the woods and had lain out long enough for moss to grow on their backs. b. A slow, rustic, or old-fashioned person; one attached to antiquated ideas; (hence) an extreme conservative; a reactionary. See also mossyback n. 2.In early use often denoting farmers of the southern and western States of the United States (see quot. 1888). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > opponent of change Tory1712 old school1749 conservatist1831 conservative1832 fossil1844 mossback1873 stand-patter1902 old school tie1920 passéist1921 pastist1921 auntie1953 old schooler1964 Luddite1970 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned mumpsimus1573 fogram1760 fogey1792 fogramite1813 frump1817 primitist1818 foist1820 Rip Van Winkle1833 foozle1860 old-timer1860 mossyback1865 mossback1873 dugout1912 pterodactyl1921 unhip1936 fud1942 square1944 primitivist1975 retread1982 1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves from Louisiana Swamp Doctor 181 Here you sit, like a knot in a tree, with the moss commencing to grow on your back.] 1873 Logansport (Indiana) Weekly Jrnl. 13 Dec. 2/1 That glorious anniversary, so dear to the mossbacks in this State. 1874 Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Mich.) 12 Mar. 6/5 We..have often used the term ‘mossback’ as applied to farmer and settler in the backwoods. 1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. viii Mossback, a settler; a homesteader; a pioneer farmer. (Western.) 1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 5 Mar. 2/3 Everybody rejoices over the passage of the bill... We say everybody—we except a few intense mossbacks, who were known during the war as copperheads. 1888 America 18 Oct. 16 Mossback..seems to have originated in the swamps of North Carolina, where a particular class of the poor whites were said to have lived among the cypress until the moss had grown on their backs. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages i. 10 I was becoming such a mossback that I had almost stopped reading the papers. 1935 E. Pound Let. 28 Jan. (1971) 266 With De Vechii at Ministry of Education there wd. be more chance of action than with some aesthetic mossback, sentimentalizing over Dela Crusca. 1959 W. A. Leising Arctic Wings 97 I listened to old mossbacks, prospectors, and trappers. 1973 ‘Trevanian’ Loo Sanction 211 The moss-backs of the National Gallery had pulled off quite a coup in securing the Marini Horse for a one-day exhibition. 1991 Newsweek 23 Dec. 22/1 With party mossbacks on one side and radical reformers on the other, he would be the indispensable centrist. †c. A person covered in moss; (in quot. humorously, as a character in a performance) someone supposed to have risen from the grave, and hence out of touch with modern life. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun] > one who is risera1631 resurgent1763 resuscitate1814 mossback1876 resurrect1892 1876 S. McCracken Michigan & Centennial 149 A burlesque performance closed the day's festivities, in which the ‘Moss Backs’ made their appearance, direct from the wilds of the ‘Hartz mountains’, where they say they have been buried for over a hundred years. 2. a. Angling. Originally: a large, old fish, esp. one with algae growing on its back (see quot. 1890). In later use often: spec. the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (also called moss bass). Cf. mossyback n. 1. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Mossback,..A large and old fish, as a bass: so called by anglers, in allusion to the growth of seaweed, etc., which may be found on its back. 1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish of South i. 3 Large-mouthed Black Bass... Mossback. 1946 Democrat 22 Aug. 2/2 Describing in detail how the big moss-backs fought,..he devoted the remainder of his story [etc.]. 1949 L. S. Caine N. Amer. Fresh-water Sport Fish ii. 16 Largemouth... Colloquial Names..Mossback [etc.]. b. A turtle, esp. a snapping turtle ( Chelydra serpentina), with algae growing on its shell. ΚΠ 1930 Bot. Gaz. 89 374 Most people are familiar with the term ‘moss back’ as applied to the common snapping turtle. 1943 W. L. McAtee Addit. Dial. Grant County, Indiana 2 Mossback,..a turtle, usually, if not always, a snapper, with a growth of algae and other water plants on its carapace. 1943 Amer. Midland Naturalist 29 266 The common name ‘moss-back’ refers to the luxuriant, obliterative mat of firmly attached algae..that flourishes on the backs and on the upper parts of the tails of many individuals. 1958 Ecology 39 634/1 The mossback condition, common among the fresh-water turtles of North America, results from the growth of filamentous green algae on the shell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865
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