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.
SWINKS
Noun
swinks
plural of swink
Proper noun
Swinks
plural of Swink
Source: Wiktionary
SWINK
Swink, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk (; p. p. Swonken; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] Etym: [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing.]
Definition: To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.
Swink, v. t.
1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton.
2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. To devour all that others swink. Chaucer.
Swink, n. Etym: [As. swinc, geswinc.]
Definition: Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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