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.
GRIMACE
grimace, face
(noun) a contorted facial expression; “she made a grimace at the prospect”
grimace, make a face, pull a face
(verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; “He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grimace (plural grimaces)
A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
(obsolete) Affectation, pretence.
Verb
grimace (third-person singular simple present grimaces, present participle grimacing, simple past and past participle grimaced)
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Anagrams
• Gemaric, Megaric
Source: Wiktionary
Gri*mace", n. Etym: [F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. gr mask, specter, Ical. gr mask, hood, perh. akin to E. grin.]
Definition: A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.
Note: "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's "Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common usa: chagrin, double--entendre, éclaircissement, embarras, équivoque, foible, grimace, naïvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli.
Gri*mace", v. i.
Definition: To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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