milk sibling en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.
2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| milk-sibling | alternative | lexicographic | |
| milk siblings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |