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milk-sibling

milk-sibling is the alternative spelling of milk sibling.

Meaning of milk sibling

Noun

milk sibling (plural milk siblings)

  1. A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
    • But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94

Forms of milk-sibling

pluralmilk-siblings

Questions about milk-sibling

What is milk-sibling the alternative spelling of?
Milk-sibling is the alternative spelling of milk sibling.

Words near milk-sibling in the dictionary

  1. milk-man
  2. milk-men
  3. milk-mother
  4. milk-mothers
  5. milk-sap
  6. milk-sibling
  7. milk-siblings
  8. milk-sister
  9. milk-sisters
  10. milk-teeth
  11. milk-tini

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