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.
BREAKFASTING
Verb
breakfasting
present participle of breakfast
Noun
breakfasting (plural breakfastings)
The act of eating breakfast.
Source: Wiktionary
BREAKFAST
Break"fast, n. Etym: [Break + fast.]
1. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak.
2. A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.
Break"fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.]
Definition: To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior.
Break"fast, v. t.
Definition: To furnish with breakfast. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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