Definitions

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  • noun rare The son of one's stepbrother or stepsister
  • noun rare The stepson of one's sibling

Etymologies

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step- +‎ nephew

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Examples

  • I'm thinking it'd make a great sweater for my stepnephew Dylan.

    WIP: twilight yarn --> sweater? Sara M 2005

  • I'm thinking it'd make a great sweater for my stepnephew Dylan.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Sara M 2005

  • Cohen, my stepnephew I married, the bloody old gouty procurator and sodomite with a crick in his neck, and my other ten or eleven husbands, whatever the buggers 'names were, suffocated in the one cesspool.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • We’ll bury you in our shrubbery jakes where you’ll be dead and dirty with old Cuck Cohen, my stepnephew I married, the bloody old gouty procurator and sodomite with a crick in his neck, and my other ten or eleven husbands, whatever the buggers’ names were, suffocated in the one cesspool.

    Ulysses 2003

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