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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an extremely old-fashioned conservative

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1872 1. a large sluggish fish (as a largemouth bass) 2. an extremely old-fashioned or reactionary person ; fogy • mossbacked adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mossback Moss"back`, n. A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

Moby Thesaurus

Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, backwoodsman, bumpkin, clodhopper, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, dad, diehard, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, laudator temporis acti, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old school, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, provincial, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, right-winger, rightist, square, standpat, standpatter, starets, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, ultraconservative, yokel