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.
FLYBLOWN
flyblown
(adjective) blemished, especially of reputation; “a flyblown reputation”
flyblown, squalid, sordid
(adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive; “a flyblown bar on the edge of town”; “a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town”; “squalid living conditions”; “sordid shantytowns”
flyblown, maggoty
(adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; “flyblown meat”; “a sack of maggoty apricots”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
flyblown (comparative more flyblown, superlative most flyblown)
contaminated with flyblows
tainted
sordid, squalid
Source: Wiktionary
Fly"blown`, a.
Definition: Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.
FLYBLOW
Fly"blow`, v. t.
Definition: To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.
Fly"blow`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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