kinfolk

plural kinfolks · alternative kinsfolk

1. UScountableuncountableRelatives, relations.

   Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.

   2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG

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   ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’

   1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122

   “Ah, woe is me! Alas, for my kingdom and my kinfolk!”

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 34

   Then every day there is a great event anniversaried, which sets our pulse to pounding with pride. “Today is the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and battle of Balaclava in 1854.” The other day we celebrated the anniversary of our cousins, you know, and we like to keep the memory of our departed kinfolk alive.

   1963 November 19, John Crosby, “John’s ‘Family’”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 164, number 273, Chillicothe, Oh., →OCLC, page 4, column 7

   That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.

   1982, Bernard Malamud, “Cohn’s Island”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

   I'm in the 'land gettin' smoked with my kinfolk

   1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz

   Synonyms: family, relations, relatives