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.
FLIGHTY
skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous
(adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
(adjective) guided by whim and fancy; “flighty young girls”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
flighty (comparative flightier, superlative flightiest)
Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
(of a bird) That flies easily or often.
(obsolete) Swift.
Source: Wiktionary
Flight"y, a.
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.
2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Coleridge. A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Har
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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