Cater-cousin.
“His master and he, saving your worship’s reverence, are scarce cater-cousins.”—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.
“His master and he, saving your worship’s reverence, are scarce cater-cousins.”—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.