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forty-second cousin

noun

Definitions

  1. Any very distant relative.

    • And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife.
    • "Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?" "Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]
    • So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.

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