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- verb to be a
quisling
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Back-formation from quisling.
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sionnach commented on the word quisle
Yes, as the excited twittering over there on the right suggests, the folks at WOTD have accorded this back-formation word status.
If this keeps up, next thing you know kipple will be declared a real word, and I will be forced to do away with my "How do you like Kipling?" list.
FWIW, I'd a spelled it "quizzle". As in quizzle mah pizzle, schamizzle.
October 21, 2011