pibling

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

Noun

  1. Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent.
    • 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...
    • 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[…];...
    • 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,...

    Synonyms: auncle

    Coordinate Terms: nibling

Origin

Blend of parent (noun) + sibling (noun).

Forms

piblings