Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country.
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- noun pejorative A
traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
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- noun someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But: marxist "is not a modifier for" quisling "- they are freestanding faults in his panoply of faults.
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Clark also wrote the disgusting recent CiF piece calling for the "quisling" Iraqi translators to be denied asylum.
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The Norwegians—who gave us the term "quisling"—awarded former President Jimmy Carter the Peace Prize
Hullabaloo 2003
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At the Coloured University of the Western Cape, students have been consistently resisting a "quisling" Students
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The dictionary definition of "quisling" is a traitor.
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The dictionary definition of "quisling" is a traitor.
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- The head of the Minnesota GOP on Thursday said he didn't intend a Nazi comparison when he used the word "quisling" to describe Republicans who are breaking with their party's gubernatorial candidate.
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- The head of Minnesota Democrats is questioning his GOP counterpart's use of the word "quisling" to describe Republicans who aren't supporting their party's gubernatorial candidate.
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- The head of the Minnesota GOP on Thursday said he didn't intend a Nazi comparison when he used the word "quisling" to describe Republicans who are breaking with their party's gubernatorial candidate.
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The dictionary definition of "quisling" is a traitor.
chained_bear commented on the word quisling
A traitor to one's country, a collaborationist, esp. during the war of 1939-45.
February 2, 2007
roseandivy commented on the word quisling
What an awful meaning for such a charming word.
March 19, 2008
rolig commented on the word quisling
From the name of Major Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), the Norwegian army officer and diplomat who ruled Norway on behalf of the German occupying forces from 1940 to 1945.
August 1, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word quisling
Wow. I clicked on this word to see what the hell it means. I guess I had a clue a year ago. *puzzled*
Thanks for the additional detail, rolig!
August 1, 2008
rolig commented on the word quisling
I'm afraid I can't really see the charm in this word (as roseandivy does) unless you just have a thing for Q words.
August 7, 2008
yarb commented on the word quisling
Agreed, rolig. It's a quease-making word.
August 7, 2008
rolig commented on the word quisling
good one, yarb. It's a word that leaves me quizzical.
August 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word quisling
I think it's adorable, but I do have a thing for qu- words. I think the "-ling" ending (as in "Earthling") makes it a little cuter. But then, if you have known its meaning for a long time and don't constantly forget it (like I do), I can see how it's not a nice word at all.
August 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word quisling
Yep. It's a "worse than it sounds" word to me.
August 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word quisling
"It's hard to tell whom the sheik loathes more—Al Qaeda or Sunni politicians like Hashemi, who he describes as venal quislings."
—Nisid Hajari, "After the 'Surge'," Newsweek, July 28, 2008
August 8, 2008
Quintesabd commented on the word quisling
The present government of Iraq, to many Kurdish people, seem quisling.
November 30, 2016