Meaning of forty-second cousin | Babel Free

Definitions

Any very distant relative.

humorous

Examples

“And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife.”

“"Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?" "Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]”

“So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.”

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