Cross-sibling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents. neologism
"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."
Example
More examples"Ifaluk society even forbids smoking in the presence of one's cross-siblings, because it involves movements and gestures with sexual connotations."
Etymology
From cross- + sibling.
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