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.
PUCKA
pukka, pucka
(adjective) absolutely first class and genuine; “pukka sahib”; “pukka quarters with a swarm of servants”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
pucka (comparative more pucka, superlative most pucka)
Alternative form of pukka.
Source: Wiktionary
Puck"a, a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakka cooked, ripe, solid.]
Definition: Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India]
It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. Kipling.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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