Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
nibling .
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Examples
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I can't believe my "niblings" are growing up so fast!
Radical Womanhood 2008
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Then, after lunch on a bench in the high street, we went to W H Smiths, where I was looking for art materials for my niblings.
Voice Post: rmc28 2007
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Linnea met her only cousins and Rob his only niblings!
Brief update ailbhe 2007
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I have just enough money saved up to cover it, in the Baby Furnishings Fund, and yesterday the covers from my baby sister's Moses basket showed up; she had them at 12 days old, and they have been used by both my niblings since, and by a half-Swedish baby called Elva.
On babies, bumps and birthing ailbhe 2004
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It doesn't help that my mother always gave birth early, and Rob was 10 days early, and my niblings were early, but I may still be typical and go the full 40 weeks and 3 days that's apparently "average".
Pregnancy ailbhe 2004
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Because I'm on a family vacation now celebrating my Mom's 75th birthday with my siblings and niblings, I haven't had nearly as much time as I would like to check the news, the blogs or even the comments to our posts.
GayPatriot 2010
digitim commented on the word niblings
Urban Dictionary has the definition for this -- a collective term for one's nieces and nephews. I first saw this in the book Family Words by Paul Dickson.
December 2, 2006