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.
SPLINTERY
splintery
(adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
splintery, slivery
(adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; “a rough splintery floor of old pine boards”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
splintery (comparative more splintery, superlative most splintery)
Having many splinters.
Given to splintering.
Source: Wiktionary
Splin"ter*y (-y), a.
Definition: Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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