mossback

Pronounced: MOSS-back, noun

Notes: I was pretty close to the meaning – you may know the word

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Yesterday’s word

The word flaneur is “an idle man-about-town”

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1800s

Background / Comments

I thought that I had read a book in which our word was used as the name of a character, but it is a pretty dim memory, and I cannot recall what book it may have been — in addition, I may have the wrong name. Our word came from the French word flâneur (idler). The female equivalent to our word is “flaneuse”