cross-sibling

noun

An opposite-sex sibling or parallel cousin.

Meanings

nouncross-sibling (plural cross-siblings)

plural cross-siblings

  1. anthropologyAn 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.

    1998, Charles William Nuckolls, Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be Solved, page 65
  2. neologismThe half-sibling of one's half-sibling; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents.

    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.

    2013 December 28, Janelle Butterfield, “I bonded with my cross-sister – we share half-brothers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2013

Origin

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APA

cross-sibling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-sibling

MLA

“cross-sibling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-sibling. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cross-sibling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-sibling.

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