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.
FLECK
spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
(noun) a small contrasting part of something; “a bald spot”; “a leopard’s spots”; “a patch of clouds”; “patches of thin ice”; “a fleck of red”
bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; “a bit of rock caught him in the eye”
spot, fleck, blob, blot
(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fleck (plural flecks)
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
Verb
fleck (third-person singular simple present flecks, present participle flecking, simple past and past participle flecked)
(transitive) To mark with small spots
Proper noun
Fleck
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Fleck, n.
Definition: A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.
Fleck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekkr; akin to Sw. fläck, D. vlek, G. fleck, and perh. to E. flitch.]
Definition: A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.
Fleck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flecking.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. flekka, Sw. fläcka, D. vlekken, vlakken, G. flecken. See Fleck, n.]
Definition: To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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