pibling
/ˈpɪblɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.
Example Sentences
- "Are you someone's stepsibling, pibling, great grandfather, step father, mother, niece, aunt, brother, nibling, grandchild, grandmother, brother-in-law, great aunt, son, daughter, first cousin, or nephew? […] For his High Line commission, New York-based artist Darren Bader presents chess: relatives, consisting of a large-scale chessboard designed by the artist and located on the High Line at 13th Street. Visitors are invited to take part in chess games during open park hours in which they become chess pieces, their positions determined by their familial relationships to others."
- "We measured a [representing assortative mating] repeatedly, comparing the correlations of piblings (parents' siblings; avuncular relatives) with those of piblings-in-law[…]; first cousins with first-cousins-in-law[…]; and first-cousins-once-removed with first-cousins-once-removed-in-law[…]."
- "Relationships we coded as "family" only included very close ties: six parent-child relationships; two sibling relationships, and one pibling-child relationship."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪblɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈpɪblɪŋ/