quisler

noun

Etymology

Action noun from quisle + -er, in which the verb is a back-formation of the noun quisling – originally a proper noun – construed as a gerund or present participle.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of quisling.

    • The capture of the fleet would have been its delivery “to the enemy,” for France now knows and even the Vichy government knows—except Laval and a dwindling coterie of his fellow quislers—that Germany is the enemy.
    • In the rumblings of mounting war sentiment, the radicals and the left-wing trade unions blended in the public imagination into a diffuse mass of pacifist quislers, immigrants of shaky loyalties, and anarchist saboteurs.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA