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cousiny

cousiny adjective: resembling or characteristic of cousins.

Adjective

cousiny (comparative more cousiny, superlative most cousiny)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of cousins.
    • "We're a very cousiny people," Mary Harty told me. "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else."1994, John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    • Besides, I have a Rhett on standby who may live beyond my own backyard, but I know he will always be there to support and comfort me if only in a cousiny sort of way.2018, Doreen Kerry, Pathway to the Moon

Forms of cousiny

comparativemore cousiny
superlativemost cousiny

Origin of cousiny

From cousin + -y.

Questions about cousiny

What does cousiny mean?
Cousiny means resembling or characteristic of cousins.
What part of speech is cousiny?
Cousiny is an adjective.

Words near cousiny in the dictionary

  1. cousins german
  2. cousins-german
  3. cousins-in-law
  4. cousinship
  5. cousinships
  6. cousiny
  7. Cousland
  8. couslip
  9. couslips
  10. coussinet
  11. coussinets

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