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.
DICKIE
dickey, dickie, dicky, shirtfront
(noun) a man’s detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat
(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
dickie (plural dickies)
Alternative form of dicky
Etymology
Proper noun
Dickie
A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.
A patronymic surname.
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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