milk sibling

noun

A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.

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Meanings

nounmilk sibling (plural milk siblings)

plural milk siblings · alternative milk-sibling

  1. A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.

    But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.

    2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milk sibling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20sibling.

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