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cross-sibling

noun

Etymology

From cross- + sibling.

  1. learned borrowing from sibling — “relative, a relation, kinsman”
  2. formed as cross-sibling — “cross- + sibling”

Definitions

  1. An opposite-sex sibling or parallel cousin.

    • Ifaluk society even forbids smoking in the presence of one's cross-siblings, because it involves movements and gestures with sexual connotations.

  2. The half-sibling of one's half-sibling

    The half-sibling of one's half-sibling; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents.

    • As cross-siblings we're not in any way bound to each other; our relationship is optional, we don't have to get on – we just do.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cross-sibling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA