Like sibling for brother-or-sister (and of course parent for mother-or-father)? [I was just emailing someone and wrote "Was the above text part of an email to someone other than me - presumably your parent or aunt or uncle?" (in response to "I am surprised your father can remember anything of his time in the Workhouse", which she'd accidentally {I presume!} put in an email to me), and it occurred to me that I had "parent", but nothing for the second option.] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Have the courage to be ordinary - people make themselves so desperately unhappy trying to be clever and totally original. (Robbie Coltrane, RT 8-14 Nov. 1997.)

On 01/09/2013 17:07, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > Like sibling for brother-or-sister (and of course parent for > mother-or-father)? > > [I was just emailing someone and wrote "Was the above text part of an > email to someone other than me - presumably your parent or aunt or > uncle?" (in response to "I am surprised your father can remember > anything of his time in the Workhouse", which she'd accidentally {I > presume!} put in an email to me), and it occurred to me that I had > "parent", but nothing for the second option.] Nearest I could find... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pibling pibling a gender neutral term for aunt or uncle, based on the phrase "parent's sibling." generally used collectively, as a term for aunts and uncles together, similar to the word niblings for nieces and nephews together.