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Meanings of mossy in English
(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Usage of mossy in English
1
Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
2
The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
3
A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
4
The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
5
From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
6
The others agreed and they all swam lazily toward the mossy bank.
7
He found at the end of the island a great, mossy stone.
8
On he walked, along the same mossy path, almost in a dream.
9
Xiaolin pulled off his T-shirt and jumped straight into the mossy water.
10
She was standing under the tree, leaning against the great mossy trunk.
11
They did so, and stood talking under the roof of mossy tiles.
12
She ran along its mossy banks until she came to the seashore.
13
Give me your hand, and say good-by under the old mossy trees.
14
This way. He stepped past her, over a mossy green grave marker.
15
See how she sits upon her mossy stem, the queen of flowers.
16
He drank from the clear, cold spring bubbling from under mossy rocks.
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Mossy through the time
Mossy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common