英和和英

語源

From kin +‎ folk.

名詞

kinfolk (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 kinfolks または kinfolk)

1. (US) Relatives, relations.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122:

     ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’

   • 1982, Bernard Malamud, “Cohn’s Island”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux:

     That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.

   • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎^[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, かつ MJG):

     Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.

同意語

• family
• relations
• relatives

参考

• skinfolk

アナグラム

• folknik