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.
QUIDDLE
Etymology
Verb
quiddle (third-person singular simple present quiddles, present participle quiddling, simple past and past participle quiddled)
(intransitive, rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle
(intransitive, rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Quid"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quiddling.] Etym: [L. quid what.]
Definition: To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Quid"dle, Quid"dler, n.
Definition: One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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