[f. as prec. + -KIN.] Little brother. (After Ger. brüderchen.)
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., II. 285. Brotherkin Anselmus. Ibid. (1831), Sart. Res., III. vii. 289. Wert thou, my little Brotherkin, suddenly covered up within the largest imaginable glass-bell,—what a thing it were … for the world!
1856. H. Morley, Corn. Agrippa, II. 59. Let this brotherkin, priest or Levite turn his heart from her.
