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.
SNIFT
Etymology 1
Noun
snift (countable and uncountable, plural snifts)
(UK, dialect) A moment.
(UK, dialect, uncountable) Slight snow; sleet.
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Verb
snift (third-person singular simple present snifts, present participle snifting, simple past and past participle snifted)
(now, dialectal) To sniff; to snort or snuff.
To snivel.
Anagrams
• nifts
Source: Wiktionary
Snift, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Snifting.] Etym: [From Sniff.]
1. To snort. [Obs.] "Resentment expressed by snifting." Johnson.
2. To sniff; to snuff; to smell. It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. Landor.
Snift, n.
1. A moment. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. Slight snow; sleet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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