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.
FUZZ
fuzz
(noun) the first beard of an adolescent boy
blur, fuzz
(noun) a hazy or indistinct representation; “it happened so fast it was just a blur”; “he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz”
bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig
(noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
hair, fuzz, tomentum
(noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; “peach fuzz”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
A state of befuddlement.
Verb
fuzz (third-person singular simple present fuzzes, present participle fuzzing, simple past and past participle fuzzed)
(transitive) To make fuzzy.
(intransitive) To become fuzzy.
(transitive, dated) To make drunk.
(computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
(intransitive, dated) To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.
Etymology 2
Noun
fuzz (uncountable)
(US, slang, with "the") The police.
Source: Wiktionary
Fuzz, v. t.
Definition: To make drunk. [Obs.] Wood.
Fuzz, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. fuzzy that ravels (of silk or cotton), D. voos spongy, fungous, G. faser filament. E. feaze to untwist.]
Definition: Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.
Fuzz, v. i.
Definition: To fly off in minute particles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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