nibling
/ˈnɪblɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.
Example Sentences
- "Aunts and uncles are concerned with the education of their niblings and may play a minor role in the ultimate arrangement of a marriage for the nibling."
- "Very recently I heard an informant respond with cousin to my question about the “child of nibling” position."
- "In the following line we find Q¹P²; that is, child of a parent of a parent; this is the relation that nuncles (aunts or uncles) bear to niblings (nieces or nephews)."
- "She [Viola Edmundson Garfield] was close to her family, particularly her younger “siblings and niblings.”"
- "Kin selection was strongest for choices between sibling and friend, decreasing across sibling vs. nibling, nibling vs. friend, and nibling vs. cousin, [...]"
- "Most distinctive of the system, therefore, were the two terms for parental siblings and for niblings, which occurred only among the Salish and neighboring Southern Nootkans."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɪblɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈnɪblɪŋ/