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milk siblings

milk siblings is the plural 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

Questions about milk siblings

What is milk siblings the plural of?
Milk siblings is the plural of milk sibling.

Words near milk siblings in the dictionary

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

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