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.
SHEEPISH
shamefaced, sheepish
(adjective) showing a sense of shame
sheeplike, sheepish
(adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
sheepish (comparative more sheepish, superlative most sheepish)
Having the characteristics of a sheep.
Shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed.
Source: Wiktionary
Sheep"ish, a.
1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]
2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke.
– Sheep"ish*ly, adv.
– Sheep"ish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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