Folks,
A respectable 15 definitions of
MOSSER follow. A few of them came in during the extension period, so it paid off. One - only one - is correct. The rest are products of your fertile imaginations. The defs have been edited slightly for format consistency and are in ascending order by character count. That might not always correspond to visual length in your email display font.
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MOSSER means, let me know by private email to
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1. a gravedigger.
2. a hill farmer.
3. a swamp-dweller.
4. a talkative or boastful person.
5. a Frenchman [18th century slang].
6. a person assigned to wash golf balls.
7. [WWI Sl.] a lazy soldier; also, a coward.
8. an oriental moth that produces brownish silk.
9. a smuggler (esp. of sheep, from England to France).
10. a 17th century raider or bandit in the Scottish borders.
11. a spiked wheel used by landscapers to lay sod in an even manner.
12. one who lies low but keeps his head to the ground (to gather information).
13. [Cockney] a hard master, a cruel boss; orig. obs. perhaps from Yiddish momser, bastard.
14. a foolish or obnoxious person prone to making stupid statements and/or inappropriate behavior.
15. [NE slang] in American football, an informal, often amateur, scrimmage played upon an unfinished field.
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Efrem