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- noun Plural form of
half-cousin .
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Examples
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Twirling my hair in the corner of the gym watching everyone and their half-cousins get picked for the team.
La Coquette: 2005
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Adults discuss the day-by-day business of the farm -- the needs of various machines and livestock, and who is responsible for what -- while the little half-cousins near Jacob whisper about school and various friends that he will never meet.
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Decrepit senior citizens whose eighty zillion nieces, nephews, half-cousins, and bridge partners haven't phoned them in decades, but gosh, one day comes along and it's Remember old Wilbur?
sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2001
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We stopped at Todmorden to say farewell to our relations, and also paid farewell visits to some friends, amongst them Mr.. Butler and her husband -- Mr. Hamerton's Burnley schoolmaster; to Mr. Handsley, for whom he had as much esteem as affection, and to his half-cousins Abram and
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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What makes it harder is, that all the husbands and wives in our family, for a hundred and fifty years, have been more or less of cousins, or half-cousins, or second or third cousins.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864
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It seems that he had been left guardian to this boy, whom he brought out with him some years ago to this country, together with a little girl about two years younger, who was the child of a daughter of his mother by a former marriage, so that the children were half-cousins to each other.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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As part of my continuing coverage of unusually cinematic Southern California crimes, complete with the kind of multi-culti bands of perps that are more interesting than the usual gangs of half-cousins, here's an excerpt from the
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Those counts involved marriages allegedly arranged be-tween two underage girls and their adult half-cousins.
unknown title 2009
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Most notably, the mystery of whether or not Mahati is Kajika's grandfather, thus making her and Lumati half-cousins.
Anime Nano! 2009
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As part of my continuing coverage of unusually cinematic Southern California crimes, complete with the kind of multi-culti bands of perps that are more interesting than the usual gangs of half-cousins, here’s an excerpt from the Orange County Register:
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