An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BIFFIN
Etymology
Noun
biffin (plural biffins)
A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.
Source: Wiktionary
Bif"fin, n. Etym: [Cf. Beaufin.]
1. A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
Note: [Sometimes called beaufin; but properly beefin (it is said), from its resemblance to raw beef.] Wright.
2. A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple. Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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