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.
BLECH
Etymology 1
Interjection
blech
(slang) An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain.
Synonyms
• feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also bah
Verb
blech (third-person singular simple present bleches, present participle bleching, simple past and past participle bleched)
(slang) To have the vomiting reflex triggered.
Etymology 2
Noun
blech (plural bleches)
(Judaism) A metal sheet used to cover stovetop burners on Shabbat to allow food to be kept warm without violating the prohibition against cooking.
Synonyms
• plata
Anagrams
• belch
Source: Wiktionary
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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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