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milk sibling

milk sibling noun: a person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.

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
alternative formmilk-sibling

Questions about milk sibling

What does milk sibling mean?
Milk sibling means a person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
What part of speech is milk sibling?
Milk sibling is a noun.
What is the plural of milk sibling?
The plural of milk sibling is milk siblings.

Words near milk sibling in the dictionary

  1. milk saucepan
  2. milk saucepans
  3. milk scall
  4. milk shake
  5. milk shakes
  6. milk sibling
  7. milk siblings
  8. milk sickness
  9. milk sister
  10. milk sisters
  11. milk skin

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