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Definition of Mossy
1. Adjective. Overgrown with moss.
2. Adjective. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned. "Moss-grown ideas about family life"
Similar to: Unfashionable, Unstylish
Derivative terms: Stodginess
Definition of Mossy
1. a. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Definition of Mossy
1. Adjective. Covered in or overgrown with moss. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mossy
1. covered with moss [adj MOSSIER, MOSSIEST]
Medical Definition of Mossy
1. 1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. "Old trees are more mossy far than young." (Bacon) 2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green. Origin: Mossier; Mossiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossy
Literary usage of Mossy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1877)
"YON wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide, That nurse in their bosom the youth
o' the Clyde, Where the grouse lead their coveys thro' the ..."
2. Bulletin by New Zealand Geological Survey (1912)
"mossy Creek mine.—This mine is in the east edge of Jefferson City, to the east
of mossy Creek and 500 ... General structural section of mossy Creek mine. ..."
3. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes (1862)
"THE girt wold house o' mossy ... Vor ever,—vor he left noo son To teake the house
o' mossy ... The girt wold house o' mossy ..."
4. The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1902)
"... But let me live an' die where I Can zee the ground, an' trees, an' sky.
The girt wold house o' mossy ... a-winden deep, Wer mossy banks ..."
5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE GREEN mossy BANKS WHERE THE BUTTERCUPS GREW O, my thoughts are away where my
infancy flew, Near the green mossy bank where the buttercups grew ..."
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