kinfolk

• kinsfolk

From kin +‎ folk.

kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks)

1. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:

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

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

     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, Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):

     Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.

• family
• relations
• relatives

• skinfolk

• folknik