英和和英

名詞

Finnishman (複数形 Finnishmen)

1. (rare) A native or inhabitant of Finland.
   • 1871, The Traveller’s Guide in Sweden and the Most Interesting Places in Norway, with Historical and Statistical Notices, Maps and Some Dialogues of Conversation &c., Stockholm: Adolf Bonnier, […], pages 17 and 203:

     Among the individuals of foreign extraction residing in Sweden the most numerous are Finnishmen, Jews, Germans, Danes and Norwegians. […] The northern parts of the peninsula of Scandinavia and Finland are inhabited by the Laplanders, who in Sweden and Norway are denominated Lappar, in Norway Finner, whereas the Finnishmen, who are settled in Norway, are called Quäner.

   • 1902 April, J. E. Patterson, “Anecdotes of Sea Superstitions”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XXIII (January to June), number 136, London: George Newnes, Ltd., […], page 427:

     Late one afternoon the skipper said he thought that we should have a breeze before nightfall, and the helmsman—an elderly Finnishman—ventured to feel sure that we should.

   • 1911 January 28, Harry Irving Greene, “The Whimsicalee”, in George [Brinton McClellan] Harvey, editor, Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, volume LV, number 2823, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 13:

     And in that merry and blithesome crew / Were Malay and Portugee, / Turkeyman, Irishman, Finnishman, Yankeeman, Blackamoor, señors of Spain, Kidd, in his gallows rig, Satan and Cain, / Myself and a chimpanzee.

   • 1914, Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Mines and Mining, House of Representatives, Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 387, a Resolution Authorizing and Directing the Committee on Mines and Mining to Make an Investigation of Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan, February 9-14, 1914, part I, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 470:

     [Jonas R.] Winberg. It is a Finnishman that is called Jeff Lukkaila.

   • 2003, Sarah Zettel, The Usurper’s Crown: A Novel of Isavalta, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 39:

     “And we’re doin’ nuthin’ ’tall for ’em by standin’ here,” announced Elias Ilkka, a squat, dark Finnishman, tough as tarred rope and the nominal leader of the itinerant fisherman who clung to the shore of Sand Island.