cross-sibling
nounEtymology From cross- + sibling.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences 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:
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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:
- Related terms
- cross-cousin