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New Lang. Politics 267: MOSSBACK a reactionary; one who furiously resists progress of any kind. The word is derived from a sea creature so ancient that it has moss or seaweed growing on its back.at moss-back, n.
New Lang. Politics 267: MOSSBACK a reactionary; one who furiously resists progress of any kind. The word is derived from a sea creature so ancient that it has moss or seaweed growing on its back. (ref. to 1901) New Lang. Politics (2nd edn) 600: ‘Tinhorn politician’ was an epithet coined by William Allen White in an Emporia (Kansas) Gazette editorial on October 25, 1901.at tinhorn, adj.
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