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What (who) is kissing cousin - definition

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COUSINS BASED ON PARENTS GENDER

Cross cousin; Cross-Cousin; Cross-cousin; Parallel-cousin; Ortho-cousin; Parallel cousin; Cross cousins; Parallel cousins

kissing cousin

¦ noun a relative one knows well enough to greet with a kiss.

parallel cousin

¦ noun a first cousin.

Parallel and cross cousins

In discussing consanguineal kinship in anthropology, a parallel cousin or ortho-cousin is a cousin from a parent's same-sex sibling, while a cross-cousin is from a parent's opposite-sex sibling. Thus, a parallel cousin is the child of the father's brother (paternal uncle's child) or of the mother's sister (maternal aunt's child), while a cross-cousin is the child of the mother's brother (maternal uncle's child) or of the father's sister (paternal aunt's child).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_and_cross_cousins

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Parallel and cross cousins

In discussing consanguineal kinship in anthropology, a parallel cousin or ortho-cousin is a cousin from a parent's same-sex sibling, while a cross-cousin is from a parent's opposite-sex sibling. Thus, a parallel cousin is the child of the father's brother (paternal uncle's child) or of the mother's sister (maternal aunt's child), while a cross-cousin is the child of the mother's brother (maternal uncle's child) or of the father's sister (paternal aunt's child). Where there are unilineal descent groups in a society (i.e. matrilineal and/or patrilineal), one's parallel cousins on one or both sides will belong to one's own descent group, while cross-cousins will not (assuming descent group exogamy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel and cross cousins

Examples of use of kissing cousin

1. Email the Opinion Page EditorÑåäüìàÿ âîäà íà êèñåëå÷ a kissing cousin or distant relative Seven (ñåìü) is a nice, mystical number.

2. VORONEZH –– The increasingly crowded field of political youth movements gained a new member –– or at least a new name –– as the United Russia party‘s Young Guard wrapped up its founding congress with a rally full of razzmatazz that invited comparisons with its kissing cousin, the equally pro–Kremlin youth group Nashi.

3. In many cases, "seven" just means "many." For example, a person with a more mundane profession than wizardry might describe the family business with the expression äî ñåäüìîãî êîëåíà (going back many generations, literally "until the seventh knee")÷ Â ìîåé ñåìüå âñå ìóæчèíû äî ñåäüìîãî êîëåíà áûëè âîåííûìè. (All the men in my family for generations were in the military.) Or if you are referring to a "kissing cousin" –– a very distant relation –– you can say ñåäüìàÿ âîäà íà êèñåëå (literally "the seventh water in the jelly"). The expression äî ñåäüìîãî ïîòà (literally "to seven sweats") means to do something to the point of exhaustion. Îòåö Ñàøêè ðàáîòàë äî ñåäüìîãî ïîòà íà äâóõ ðàáîòàõ. (Sasha‘s father worked himself ragged at two jobs.) And the expression íà ñåìè âåòðàõ (literally "in seven winds") refers to a place that is windswept.