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\"22<\/a>When my brother and I were kids in the \u201880s, we loved Sniglets<\/a><\/em>, a series of books popularized on the show Not Necessarily the News. <\/em>A sniglet<\/em> is \u201cany word that doesn\u2019t appear in the dictionary, but should.\u201d To play the Game of Sniglets, you could create a new nonsense word, repurpose an old one, make combinations, etc. They always made us laugh or made us think about funny situations, like ambivilane<\/em> – the striped area by an exit ramp where people often pull off when trying to decide “Is this my exit?”<\/p>\n

A common word we often hear in the online community is diaversary<\/em> \u2013 the anniversary of your diabetes diagnosis. Taking a page from diaversary, we came up with the following for our diabetes dictionary (which of course we would call a diadictionary).<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

diabetic –\u00a0<\/strong>[old English] a term once used to describe people with diabetes<\/p>\n

diameter<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 the distance travelled by a person with diabetes to reach his or her glucose meter<\/p>\n

diaphragm<\/strong> \u00a0<\/em>\u2013 the muscle used for deep, calm breaths when someone asks,\u00a0‘Did you eat too much sugar?’<\/em><\/p>\n

diabolical <\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 how one acts when\u00a0blood sugar is high<\/p>\n

dialogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the conversation one has when meeting someone else wearing an insulin pump<\/p>\n

diagonal\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0that perfect 45\u00b0 injection angle<\/p>\n

diatribe\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the angry, frustrated rant a person with diabetes\u00a0goes off on when talking to their\u00a0endocrinologist<\/p>\n

diamond<\/strong> \u2013 the level of frequent flier miles you’d be at if you could count it in test strips<\/p>\n

diagnosis<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the day that will live in infamy<\/p>\n

diarrhea<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a condition caused by sugar free candy<\/p>\n

diagram <\/strong>– what you draw while trying to understand your deductible and co-pay<\/p>\n

diaper bag<\/strong>\u00a0– what you need to carry all your diabetes junk<\/p>\n

diagnostic <\/strong>\u2013 when you\u2019re not sure whether you believe you took your dose or not<\/p>\n

diary <\/strong>– your BG logs<\/p>\n

dia de los muertos<\/strong> – you the morning after a major low blood sugar<\/p>\n

And to get a little sillier\u2026<\/p>\n

diasaster<\/strong> \u2013 when you go to get that one last supply and realize you\u2019re already out<\/p>\n

diatitian<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013 the one you have to answer to (besides your scale)<\/p>\n

dianother-day<\/strong> – our favorite James Bond film<\/p>\n

diamn shame <\/strong>– when you go low but you’re out of the good candy<\/p>\n

dialicious\u00a0<\/strong>– when it’s low carb but you can’t tell<\/p>\n

diavulge\u00a0<\/strong>– when you share your A1C with the DOC<\/p>\n

dialate <\/strong>– when you’re late for work because of an eye exam<\/p>\n

diapression<\/strong> \u2013 when dealing with diabetes sends you into overwhelm mode<\/p>\n

What diabetes sniglet would you add? Tell us in the comments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

diabetic – [old English] a term once used to describe people with diabetes
\ndiameter \u2013 the distance travelled by a person with diabetes to reach his or her glucose meter
\ndialate – when you’re late for work because of an eye exam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":43900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n23 Hilarious Diabetes Sniglets We Just Made Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"diarrhea \u2013 a condition caused by sugar free candy, diagram - what you draw while trying to understand your deductible and co-pay, diaper bag - what you need to carry all your diabetes junk,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Melissa Lee\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899\",\"name\":\"23 Hilarious Diabetes Sniglets We Just Made Up\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iStock_Diabetes-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-30T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-13T13:02:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/62c0a4a536510e9d01359ff78b0d6c9b\"},\"description\":\"diarrhea \u2013 a condition caused by sugar free candy, diagram - what you draw while trying to understand your deductible and co-pay, diaper bag - what you need to carry all your diabetes junk,\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iStock_Diabetes-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iStock_Diabetes-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1918,\"caption\":\"22 Hilarious Diabetes Sniglets We Just Made Up\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=43899#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"23 Hilarious Diabetes Sniglets We Just Made Up\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\",\"name\":\"ASweetLife\",\"description\":\"The Diabetes Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/62c0a4a536510e9d01359ff78b0d6c9b\",\"name\":\"Melissa Lee\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1b69d7c961cd1ee5f94c419df7a5a2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1b69d7c961cd1ee5f94c419df7a5a2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Melissa Lee\"},\"description\":\"+Melissa Lee was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 10 in 1990. 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