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.
backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption
(noun) fortitude and determination; “he didn’t have the guts to try it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
GUTs
plural of GUT
• Gust, gust, tugs
guts
plural of gut
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera
(by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
Synonyms: balls (vulgar), nerve, pluck, Thesaurus:courage
(informal) Content, substance.
(informal) The essential, core parts.
(informal) One's innermost feelings.
guts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut
guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
• Gust, gust, tugs
Source: Wiktionary
Gut, n. Etym: [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan to pour. See FOUND to cast.]
1. A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
2. An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).
Gut, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.]
1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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.