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.
SPOONING
Verb
spooning
present participle of spoon
Noun
spooning (plural spoonings)
The act of picking something up with a spoon.
Anagrams
• snooping
Source: Wiktionary
SPOON
Spoon, v. i. (Naut.)
Definition: See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.
Spoon, n. Etym: [OE. spon, AS. sp, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq. root170. Cf. Span-new.]
1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] Hood. Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached.
– Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.
– Spoon net, a net for landing fish.
– Spoon oar. see under Oar.
Spoon, v. t.
Definition: To take up in, a spoon.
Spoon, v. i.
Definition: To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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