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.
MISAPPLY
misapply, misuse
(verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly; “The words are misapplied in this context”; “You are misapplying the name of this religious group”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
misapply (third-person singular simple present misapplies, present participle misapplying, simple past and past participle misapplied)
To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
Source: Wiktionary
Mis`ap*ply", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misapplied; p. pr. & vb. n. Misapplying.]
Definition: To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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