cross-sibling

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English

Etymology

From cross- +‎ sibling.

Noun

cross-sibling (plural cross-siblings)

  1. (anthropology) An opposite-sex sibling or parallel cousin.
    • 1998, Charles William Nuckolls, Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be Solved, page 65:
      Ifaluk society even forbids smoking in the presence of one's cross-siblings, because it involves movements and gestures with sexual connotations.
  2. (neologism) The half-sibling of one's half-sibling; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents.
    • 2013 December 28, Janelle Butterfield, “I bonded with my cross-sister – we share half-brothers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2013-12-29:
      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.

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