cross-sibling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An opposite-sex sibling or parallel cousin.
noun
The half-sibling of one's half-sibling; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents.
Example Sentences
- "Ifaluk society even forbids smoking in the presence of one's cross-siblings, because it involves movements and gestures with sexual connotations."
- "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."