Quisling
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Named from Major Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian army officer and politician who collaborated with the occupying Germans during World War Two and was subsequently executed for treason. The name is a latinization of a Danish place called Kvislemark.
Noun
- A traitor who collaborates with the enemy, especially during the Second World War.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun,
- 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,