nibling

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪblɪŋ/

The English word “nibling” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.

Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.

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