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.
MUDDY
mucky, muddy
(adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; “muddy boots”; “a mucky stable”
cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid
(adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; “a cloudy liquid”; “muddy coffee”; “murky waters”
dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
(adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; “dirty” is often used in combination; “a dirty (or dingy) white”; “the muddied grey of the sea”; “muddy colors”; “dirty-green walls”; “dirty-blonde hair”
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”
muddy
(verb) make turbid; “muddy the water”
muddy
(verb) cause to become muddy; “These data would have muddied the prediction”
muddy, muddy up
(verb) dirty with mud
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
muddy (comparative muddier, superlative muddiest)
Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
(euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
Verb
muddy (third-person singular simple present muddies, present participle muddying, simple past and past participle muddied)
(transitive) To get mud on (something).
(transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.
Source: Wiktionary
Mud"dy, a. [Compar. Muddier; superl. Muddiest.]
1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. Shak.
4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.
5. Not clear or bright. Swift.
Mud"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Muddying.]
1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. Grew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THEORETICAL
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