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cousin
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kissing cousins
relatives who know one another well enough to kiss when they meet. Joe and I are kissing cousins, though we ain't seen one another since we was kids. Technically, we're second cousins once removed, but I just say we're kissing cousins.
See also: kiss

think someone hung the moon (and stars) and think someone is God's own cousin

Rur. to think someone is perfect. Joe won't listen to any complaints about Mary. He thinks she hung the moon and stars. Jim is awful stuck-up. He thinks he's God's own cousin.
See also: hung, moon, think

What's buzzin'? and What's buzzin' cousin?

Sl. What's happening? Hey, chum! What's buzzin' cousin? What's buzzin' around here?
a kissing cousin  (old-fashioned)
someone you are related to but not very closely I didn't realize she knew Tony, but in fact, they're kissing cousins.
See also: kiss
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MOYNIHAN The music of the season summons us all to greater displays of brotherhood, sisterhood, motherhood, fatherhood - and (I suppose) grandmotherhood, grandfatherhood and cousinhood.
Christmas lyric rewrites bring a smattering of seasonal satire by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
One other family in the cousinhood, Grenville, also provided a father and son as Prime Minister, George and William).
Columns commemorating British history by Wedd, George / Contemporary Review
54) Primarily settlements of kin, Brieron communities were a "true community of relatives, so much that neighborhood and cousinhood [were] confused.
Workers and community: the case of the peat-cutters and the ... by Schuster, Leslie Ann / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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