mossybackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒsibæk/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɔsiˌbæk/, /ˈmɑ-/
• ハイフネーション: moss‧y‧back

名詞

mossyback (plural mossybacks) (chiefly US)

1. (informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.

   Synonyms: conservative, reactionary, retrograde, traditionalist

2. (informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
3. Senses relating to animals.
   1. (fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
   2. (obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.

派生語

• mossybacked, mossy-backed

参照

Further reading

• menhaden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brevoortia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Brevoortia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ethmidium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ethmidium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies