noncousin

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ cousin

Noun[edit]

noncousin (plural noncousins)

  1. One who is not a cousin.
    • 2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in New York Times[1]:
      The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds []