quisling

plural quislings · alternative Quisling

1. derogatoryA traitor who collaborates with the enemy.First known use 1940

   It is time to clear out the quislings and paid flunkies of city hall and big business.

   1983 December 17, Tom Reeves, “The Scondras Victory”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 5

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   In many countries, including some where the Jews were neither numerically strong nor in possession of important posts, these envoys of the German Secret Service have been able, solely by the use of anti-Jewish slogans, to create those "national" Fascist movements from which Quislings are bred.

   1940, Walter Tschuppik, The Quislings: Hitler's Trojan Horses, Hutchinson, page 7

   If, in the nation about to be attacked, influential persons were discovered who could be bribed or corrupted, German agents made use of these quislings.

   1944, Ralph D. Casey, EM 2: What Is Propaganda?^(https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-2-what-is-propaganda-(1944)/enemy-propaganda), War Department

   The man she cherishes, the man she butterfly-kisses, the man she sleeps curved around like two spoons in a drawer. It is he who is evil, he who is sworn to destroy her, an emotional quisling of the first water.

   1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun

   He sees off an attack from humans, who have as servants certain quisling apes, former followers of Caesar’s traitorous ex-comrade Koba (a motion-capture performance from Toby Kebbell).

   2017 June 26, Peter Bradshaw, “War for the Planet of the Apes review”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2023

   Synonyms: collaborator, traitor, rat, backstabber, betrayer, cockatrice, double-crosser, rat

alternative Quisling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of quisle

plural Quislings

1. Alternative letter-case form of quisling.