Pronunciation
- RP IPA: en, /ˈnɪblɪŋ/
- Homophones: en, nibbling
- Hyphenation: en + nib + ling
Full definition of nibling
Noun
- (chiefly anthropology, rare, often in the plural) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece. from 1951
- 1989 November, Gacs, Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, University of Illinois PressShe was close to her family, particularly her younger “siblings and niblings.â€
- 1998 May, D.J. Kruger, Relative worth across disparate types of assistance http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/ks-gen.htmlKin selection was strongest for choices between sibling and friend, decreasing across sibling vs. nibling, nibling vs. friend, and nibling vs. cousin.
- 1999 June, Jay Miller, Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey, University of Nebraska PressMost distinctive of the system, therefore, were the two terms for parental siblings and for niblings, which occurred only among the Salish and neighboring Southern Nootkans.
- 2005 February, N. J. Enfield, "The Body as a Cognitive Artifact in Kinship Representations", Current Anthropology, Volume 46, Number 1Cousins are informally referred to by the same terms used for siblings, but officially one has an aunt/uncle-nibling relationship with one's cousins
- 2005 June 1, Sean M Theriault, The Power Of The People, Ohio State University PressBut, it is my niblings who taught me how to love.
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