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MOSSBACK
Definition of MOSSBACK
noun
Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it. Sense 2.4 (“largemouth bass”) may refer to the back of the fish being a dark green colour.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MOSSBACK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOSSBACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOSSBACK starts with M and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ABCKMOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start MOSSBA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MOSSBACK?
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