cousin

noun10

1. •
   a son or daughter of one of your uncles or aunts

   • Although we were cousins, we grew up like sisters.
2. •
   Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.

   • Salute Andronicus⸝ and Junia my cosyns⸝ which were presoners with me also⸝ which are wele taken amonge the apostles⸝ and were in Christ before me. — 1526
3. •
   Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
4. •
   [before a noun] (figurative) Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.

   • The euill habit of the body, is next cosin to the dropsie, […] — 1607
5. •
   [in the plural] A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.

   • [H]e had received such good accounts from the Upper Nez Percés of their cousins, the Lower Nez Percés, that he had become desirous of knowing them as friends and brothers. — 1837
6. •
   Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.

   • I assure you, my dirty Cousin! thof his Skin be so vvhite, and to be sure, it is the most vvhitest that ever vvas seen, I am a Christian as vvell as he, and no-body can say that I am base born, […] — 1749
7. •
   Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (UK) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.

   • My noble L[ords] and Cosens all, good morrovv, / I haue beene long a sleeper, but I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designes, / VVhich by my presence might haue been concluded. — 1593
8. •
   (no longer used) A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
9. •
   (no longer used) A person who is swindled; a dupe.
10. •
    (no longer used, rare) A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.

    • Those whom Venus is said to rule, […] Wenchers, Leachers, Shakers, Smockers, Cousins, Cullies, Stallions and Bellibumpers; […] — 1653

verb4

1. •
   [with oneself] (rare) To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.

   • [T]he old gentleman took me into the house and introduced me to the family, where I was at once cousined by them all. — 1877
2. •
   (US, informal) To visit a cousin or other relation.

   • It isn't the thing for a man to be like a stranger to his own flesh and blood. I'm going cousining, Sue, down East, and I'll hunt up my relations. — 1887
3. •
   (US, informal) To associate with someone or something on a close basis.

   • The UK has fiscal arithmetic cousined with that of Greece, but is dealing with it. — 2012
4. •
   (rare) To address (someone) as "cousin".

   • [N]o, no, let me alone to cozen you rarely. — 1604

noun1

1. •
   (slang) A fan of the character Lucien LaCroix from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.

   • of course, even a Cousin comme moi has to admit that GWD [Geraint Wyn Davies] can do the wicked hot vampire thing too, when given the opportunity... — 1998