Cousin-german.

The children of brothers and sisters, first cousins; kinsfolk. (Latin, germaʹnus, a brother, one of the same stock.)

“There is three cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of Reading, of Maiden-head, of Colebrook, of horses and money.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.