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MOSSY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
Example:
moss-grown ideas about family life
Synonyms:
fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stick-in-the-mud; stodgy
Classified under:
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Overgrown with moss
Synonyms:
moss-grown; mossy
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Derivation:
moss (tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants)
Context examples:
Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling—to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy- faced lambs:—they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
