Meaning of Finnishman | Babel Free

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A native or inhabitant of Finland.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

““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.”

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