niefling

plural nieflings · alternative niephling

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   To my brother Michael, my sister-in-law Cathryn, and nieflings Peter, Daniel, and Clara: I love you and wish you many exciting adventures in the years to come.

   2022, A. J. Sass, Ellen Outside the Lines, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN

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   I come from a very large family (three brothers, three sisters, about as many aunts and uncles, and loads more cousins and nieflings) almost all of whom I've fallen out of contact with and honestly don't feel bad about it.

   2013 April 29, Quid, “Is losing contact with your brother *that bad*?”, in Penny Arcade Forums, archived from the original on 13 May 2015

   As well, while writing this book, I thought a lot about the future world I hope my nieflings, Kathryn, Brittany, Evan, Wyatt, Avery, Reed, Aurora, Jordan, and Megan, will see and help to make.

   2018, Shelley Streeby, “Acknowledgments”, in Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 129

   Here’s what that might look like: your spouse/s (your long-term partner/s, if you are unmarried, have no legal rights unless you grant it to them prior to your death), your children by majority vote, your parents, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents, nieflings, the siblings of your parents, and so on—there are rules for determining who’s next in line all the way down to your first cousins twice removed!

   2021, Mortellus, “Advanced Planning”, in Do I Have to Wear Black? Rituals, Customs & Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN