"forty-second cousin" meaning in English

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      "form": "forty-second cousins",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1879, Mark Twain, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn:",
          "text": "And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife.",
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        {
          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:",
          "text": "\"Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?\"\n\"Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Sue Lawrence, Down to the Sea:",
          "text": "So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Any very distant relative."
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          "distant",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Any very distant relative."
      ],
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        "humorous"
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  "word": "forty-second cousin"
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        {
          "ref": "1879, Mark Twain, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn:",
          "text": "And also my step-sister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law-and next week she will be my wife.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:",
          "text": "\"Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?\"\n\"Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Sue Lawrence, Down to the Sea:",
          "text": "So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Any very distant relative."
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        "(humorous) Any very distant relative."
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  "word": "forty-second cousin"
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