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.
MIDDEN
dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill
(noun) a heap of dung or refuse
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
midden (plural middens)
A dungheap.
A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
(archaeology) A prehistoric pile of bones and shells.
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Source: Wiktionary
Mid"den, n. [Also midding.] Etym: [Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung.]
1. A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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