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.
SHELFY
reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly
(adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; “reefy shallows”; “shoaly waters”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
shelfy (comparative more shelfy, superlative most shelfy)
(obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
(obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
Synonyms
• shelvy
Anagrams
• fleshy
Source: Wiktionary
Shelf"y, a.
1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.
2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.] The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SOMETIME
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