kinfolk

• kinsfolk

From kin +‎ folk.

kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks or 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, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

     Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.

• family
• relations
• relatives

• skinfolk

• folknik