finn : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: finn	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for finn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Finn n a native or inhabitant of Finland
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Finn \Finn\, a. A native of Finland; one of the Finn[?] in the ethnological sense. See {Finns}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Finns \Finns\, n. pl.; sing. {Finn}. (Ethnol.) (a) Natives of Finland; Finlanders. (b) A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. [Written also {Fins}.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
finn v. [IRC] To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}. The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. There may be some influence from the `Finn' character in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel "Count Zero", who at one point says to another (much younger) character "I have a pair of shoes older than you are, so shut up!"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
finn To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}. The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. [{Jargon File}] (2000-08-05)