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English
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.
Noun
quisler (plural quislers)
- Synonym of quisling
1940 May 6, “Quisling”, in LIFE, volume 8, number 19, page 98:Other potential "quislers" still at large last week include: Sweden's Sven Olav Lindholm, an Army sergeant who willingly dubs himself Sweden's Hitler; Holland's Blackshirt Anton Adrian Missert; Hungary's Greenshirt Kalman Hubay; England's Blackshirt Sir Oswald Mosley; Belgium's broom-waving Rexist Léon Degrelle and the underground pro-Nazi conspirators who agitate in Alsace-Lorraine.
1942, The Christian Century - Volume 59, page 1517: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.
1999, Susan Ware, Forgotten Heroes: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.