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Swedish word of the day: quisling
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The Local Sweden
The big political fuss this week (although there have been a few of them) has been over top Sweden Democrat Richard Jomshof calling Aftonbladet's political editor, Anders Lindberg, en quisling.
This word is the same in English ("a quisling," "many quislings"), but that may or may not help you with the meaning, which is "traitor."
The word quisling comes from the last name of a Norwegian army officer named Vidkun Quisling who started a fascist party in Norway in the 1930s, explicitly modelled on Germany's Nazi party.
In Swedish, the dictionary defines en quisling as specifically "a person who traitorously collaborates with an occupying enemy."
Example sentences:En quisling är en landsförrädare.