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.
CUTTY
Etymology
Adjective
cutty (comparative more cutty, superlative most cutty)
(Scotland, Northern England) Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
Noun
cutty (plural cutties)
(Scotland) A short spoon.
(Scotland) A short tobacco pipe.
(Scotland, archaic) A wanton or unchaste woman.
(Scotland, archaic) A girl with a short, dumpy figure.
Source: Wiktionary
Cut"ty, a. Etym: [Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.]
Definition: Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [Scot.]
Cut"ty (kt"t), n. Etym: [Scotch.]
1. A short spoon.
2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.
3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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