pibling

pib·ling
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US, UK/ˈpɪblɪŋ/

noun

Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.

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First used 21st c.Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounpibling (plural piblings)

plural piblings

  1. rareUsed especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.First known use 21st c.

    Relationships we coded as "family" only included very close ties: six parent-child relationships; two sibling relationships, and one pibling-child relationship.

    2019 May, Diogo Marques, Tiago Guerreiro, Luis Carriço, Ivan Beschastnikh, Konstantin Beznosov, “Vulnerability & Blame: Making Sense of Unauthorized Access to Smartphones”, in CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow: ACM Press, →DOI, →ISBN, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2020, paper 589, page 4, column 1
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    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.

    2017 May 23, “High Line Art: Darren Bader: chess: relatives”, in e-flux, archived from the original on 23 May 2017

    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[…].

    2018 November, J. Graham Ruby [et al.], “Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating”, in Genetics, volume 210, number 3, Bethesda, Md.: Genetics Society of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2018, pages 1109–1124

    Synonyms: auncle

Synonyms & antonyms

nounUsed especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.

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Translations

Finnish vanhemman sisarus, setä, eno tai täti
  • vanhemman sisarusgender-neutral term for sibling or sibling-in-law of one’s parent — see also aunt, uncle
  • setä, eno tai tätigender-neutral term for sibling or sibling-in-law of one’s parent — see also aunt, uncle
Māori matua kēkē
  • matua kēkēgender-neutral term for sibling or sibling-in-law of one’s parent — see also aunt, uncle
Polish rodzeństwo rodzica
  • rodzeństwo rodzicagender-neutral term for sibling or sibling-in-law of one’s parent — see also aunt, uncle

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

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

Chicago

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

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