Sniglets are funny made-up words/definitions for those things in life that just don't seem to have any "official" terminology. The world of infertility provides lots of hilarious inspiration.
Coinus interruptus – the impact of infertility treatments on one's pocketbook.
Mucusology – the inexact science of attempting to determine the timing of ovulation.
Sizzlers – men's bikini underwear
Freeballing – the step beyond boxers taken by truly devoted husbands with low sperm count.
Briefectomy – furtive removal of all tight-fitting briefs from your husband's underwear drawer.
Rigorous mortis – loss of interest in sex due to lack of spontaneity in timing.
Get shorty – mission of women married to men afflicted by rigorous mortis.
Transfurryence – treating your pets like human babies.
Furrtility – when your cat gets pregnant.
Hindsight – looking back to see what is happening as you get your shot!
Punjab – cracking jokes to take your wife's mind off the fact that you are about to give her a shot.
Pokejoy – the imagined glee wives think that husbands get from sticking them in the butt with a needle.
Darts – the art of throwing a lethal weapon in the general direction of your darling wife's rear end with your eyes half closed from sleep and hoping that you hit the bull's (or should I say cow's?) eye.
Lubiscus – embarassingly goopy wet feeling after an uncomfortably intimate examination or procedure.
Day-one-dering – wondering why, oh why, you have to deal with "day one", yet again!
Preconception – the insane belief that you will get pregnant before you have to do IVF.
Preconceived notion – the idea (before trying to get pregnant) that one will get pregnant within a month or two, three at the most.
Hormonophobia – dread fear of saying the wrong thing to your wife when she is on fertility drugs.
some infertility sniglets
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