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godsip

godsip is the alternative spelling of godsib.

Meaning of godsib

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

Forms of godsip

pluralgodsips

Questions about godsip

What is godsip the alternative spelling of?
Godsip is the alternative spelling of godsib.

Words near godsip in the dictionary

  1. godships
  2. godsib
  3. godsibling
  4. godsiblings
  5. godsibs
  6. godsip
  7. godsips
  8. godsister
  9. godsisters
  10. godslaughter
  11. Godsmark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: godsip (page history and authors); godsib (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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