nibling

[ nib-ling ]

1. a child of one’s sibling, such as a niece or nephew, especially used in the plural or as a gender-neutral term: My nibling started their new job last week.

   I generally get along with kids quite well—my niblings ask me to play whenever I visit my sister.

   My nibling started their new job last week.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nibling¹

n(ephew) ( def ) or n(iece) ( def ) + (s)ibling ( def ); coined by U.S. linguist Samuel E. Martin (1924–2009) in 1951

Example Sentences

It does seem a little chilly or detached not to go meet your new nibling, sure, if we subject the basics of this situation to almost zero scrutiny.

From Washington Post

I’m about to get my first nibling and I don’t really care that much, I guess?

From Slate

But that I am assur'd, Your Excellency can command the General, I fear the Souldiers, for they look as if They would be nibling too.

From Project Gutenberg

Although not hungry in the usual sense of the word, I had begun to grow rather empty, and was nibling out of a box of Chocolates when Sis came.

From Project Gutenberg

Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the Lantskip round it measures, 70 Russet Lawns, and Fallows Gray, Where the nibling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren brest The labouring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with Daisies pide, Shallow Brooks, and Rivers wide.

From Project Gutenberg