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单词 cousinred
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cousinredn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cousin n., -red suffix.
Etymology: < cousin n. + -red suffix. Compare earlier brotherred n., kindred n.In quot. 1826 perhaps with allusion to Scots to redd out kin ‘to trace a person's lineage’ (early 19th cent.).
Obsolete. rare.
Cousinship, kinship.Apparently only in or with allusion to the works of Sir Walter Scott.In quot. 1826 figurative.
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1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 237 ‘There is some cousin-red between us, doubtless,’ said the Baillie reluctantly.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 3 Sept. (1890) I. 250 Cousin Archie Swinton came to dinner. We had a dish of cousinred of course—and of auld lang syne.
1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 759/2 There was another satellite named Dick Parr, who claimed cousinred with the great George Parr.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019).
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