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.
WAVY
crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike
(adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
wavy
(adjective) (of hair) having waves; “she had long wavy hair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
wavy (comparative wavier, superlative waviest)
rising or swelling in waves.
Full of waves.
Moving to and fro; undulating.
Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
(botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
(heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
(slang) drunk
Etymology 2
See wavey.
Noun
wavy (plural wavies)
(possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).
Source: Wiktionary
Wav"y, a.
1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. "The wavy seas." Chapman.
2. Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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