English Dictionary: Finn | by the DICT Development Group |
5 results for Finn | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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 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) |