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.
SNUFFLES
Verb
snuffles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of snuffle
Noun
snuffles
plural of snuffle
Source: Wiktionary
SNUFFLE
Snuf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snuffled(); p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffling.] Etym: [Freq. of snuff, v.i.; akin to LG. snuffeln, G. schnüffeln, D. snuffeln, Dan. snövle. Cf. Sniffle.]
Definition: To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.
Snuf"fle, n.
1. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed. This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle. Coleridge.
2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
3. pl.
Definition: Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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