quisler
quisler noun: synonym of quisling.
Noun
quisler (plural quislers)
- Synonym of quisling.
- 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...1940 May 6, “Quisling”, in LIFE, volume 8, number 19, page 98
- 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.1942, The Christian Century - Volume 59, page 1517
- Synonyms:
- quisling
Synonyms of quisler
Forms of quisler
| plural | quislers |
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Origin of quisler
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.
Questions about quisler
- What does quisler mean?
- Quisler means synonym of quisling.
- What part of speech is quisler?
- Quisler is a noun.
- What is the plural of quisler?
- The plural of quisler is quislers.
Words near quisler in the dictionary
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