mossy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite overgrown with moss
    moss-grown.
  2. adjective satellite (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    fogyish; moss-grown; stodgy; stick-in-the-mud.
    • moss-grown ideas about family life

WordNet

Moss"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Mossier ; superlative Mossiest
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913