sugar sickness

noun

sugar sickness

noun

Etymology From sugar + sickness, in reference to type 2 diabetes often being caused by a prolonged high-sugar diet, and that people with diabetes have chronic hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar.

1

South Africa Diabetes; especially type 2 diabetes.

Otherwise archaic

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