comsymp
English
editEtymology
editCoined by American businessman and political organizer Robert Welch from a blend of Communist + sympathizer.
Noun
editcomsymp (plural comsymps)
- (slang, derogatory) A Communist sympathizer; a liberal.
- 1965, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California:
- Personally, I think he's a comsymp. Or close. That's why I never had much enthusiasm for being on it, great as you all seem to think it is.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition:
- The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.
- 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- [L]iberals were committed […] to convincing America that Democrats were now modern and pragmatic, not wasteful bleeding-heart suckers or childish protesters or comsymp fools.