BIL
noun informal
A person’s brother-in-law: my Gran’s sister married her BIL...
- Dinner was a great success despite me nearly strangling my BIL for phoning up to tell me how to cook the sprouts properly!
- We usually open family presents with my BIL, SIL and nephew on Christmas morning.
- On the way home my BiL phoned; my MiL is in hospital.
Origin
1960s: abbreviation.
- well-hained
- well-haired
- well-hallowed
- well-hammered
- well-handed
- well-handled
- well-hardened
- well-harnessed
- well-havened
- well head
- well-headed
- well-hearted
- well-heated
- well heeled
- well-hewn
- well-hinged
- well-hoarded
- well hole
- well hook
- well-horned
- well-horsed
- well house
- well-housed
- well-hued
- well-humored