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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered with moss or something like moss.
  • adjective Resembling moss.
  • adjective Old-fashioned; antiquated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overgrown with moss; abounding with moss.
  • Like moss.
  • Mealy.
  • Moldy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss
  • adjective Resembling moss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Covered in or overgrown with moss.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
  • adjective overgrown with moss

Etymologies

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moss +‎ -y

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