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.
DICTY
Etymology
Adjective
dicty (comparative dictier, superlative dictiest)
(African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class
(African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
(African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight
Noun
dicty (plural dicties)
(African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black.
Synonyms
• (high-class): chic, classy, ritzy
• (pretentious): flashy, showy
• (snobbish): haughty, hoity-toity, snobby, snooty, stuck-up
Proper noun
Dicty (plural er-noun)
diminutive of Dictyostelium discoideum (a soil social amoeba)
Synonyms
• Dictyostelium discoideum
• D. discoideum
• discoideum
Source: Wiktionary
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