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.
TOUCHIER
TOUCHY
delicate, ticklish, touchy
(adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact; “delicate negotiations with the big powers”; “hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter”; “a touchy subject”
huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy
(adjective) quick to take offense
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
touchier
comparative form of touchy
Anagrams
• couthier
Source: Wiktionary
TOUCHY
Touch"y, a. Etym: [For techy, tetchy.]
Definition: Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. [Colloq.] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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