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godsib

godsib noun: one's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.

Noun

godsib (plural godsibs)

  1. (historical) One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.
    • The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233
    • […] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.1965, Willard Marsh, Week with No Friday

Examples of godsib in a sentence

  • The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final...
  • After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress, page 37:
  • […] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:
  • […] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.)

Forms of godsib

pluralgodsibs

Origin of godsib

Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more.

Questions about godsib

What does godsib mean?
Godsib means one's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.
How do you use godsib in a sentence?
The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]
What part of speech is godsib?
Godsib is a noun.
What is the plural of godsib?
The plural of godsib is godsibs.

Words near godsib in the dictionary

  1. Godshall
  2. Godshalls
  3. Godshill
  4. godship
  5. godships
  6. godsib
  7. godsibling
  8. godsiblings
  9. godsibs
  10. godsip
  11. godsips

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