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cross-sibling en · NOUN

Etymology

From cross- + sibling.

Meanings

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. 1998, Charles William Nuckolls, Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be Solved, page 65:
2. (neologism) 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. 2013 December 28, Janelle Butterfield, “I bonded with my cross-sister – we share half-brothers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2013:

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Relateds

cross-cousin