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.
FLOUTING
Verb
flouting
present participle of flout
Noun
flouting (plural floutings)
The act by which something is flouted.
Anagrams
• fling out, infoglut, outfling
Source: Wiktionary
FLOUT
Flout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] Etym: [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.]
Definition: To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.
Flout, v. i.
Definition: To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.
Flout, n.
Definition: A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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