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.
CLIQUISH
clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby
(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
cliquish (comparative more cliquish, superlative most cliquish)
Of or pertaining to a clique.
Tending to associate with a small and exclusive group.
Source: Wiktionary
Cli"quish, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
– Cli"*quish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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