moss

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

   Moss covered the gravestones.

2. 2
   noun

   Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.

   Spanish moss

3. 3
   noun

   A bog; a fen.

   the mosses of the Scottish border

4. 4
   verb

   To become covered with moss.

   An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

5. 5
   noun

   A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.

   Bro, that moss was insane!

6. 6
   verb

   To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.

   You just got mossed!

7. 7
   verb

   To relax, chill out.

   Although I really shouldn't... I feel like cracking this stout and just mossing in the sun with a splif. Shit, maan. Its^([sic]) relaxation time!

8. 8
   noun

   Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).

Etymology

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.