Turncoat

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Turncoat \Turn"coat`\ (t[^u]rn"k[=o]t`), n.
     One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an
     apostate; a defector to the enemy.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession.


                                                    --Bunyan.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  turncoat
       n : a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or
           religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: {deserter},
            {apostate}, {renegade}, {recreant}, {ratter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "turncoat":
     Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Judas-like,
     Quisling, Trojan-horse, Vicar of Bray, apostate, archtraitor,
     backslider, betrayer, betraying, bolter, cockatrice,
     collaborationist, collaborator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer,
     convert, defector, deserter, double agent, double-crosser,
     double-crossing, double-dealer, fifth columnist, fifth-column,
     informer, intrigant, intriguer, machinator, mugwump, plotter,
     proselyte, quisling, quislingistic, rat, recidivist, recreant,
     renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, schemer,
     schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, serpent, snake, spy,
     straggler, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, timeserver,
     traitor, traitorous, treasonable, treasonist, treasonous, trimmer,
     turnabout, turntail, two-timing