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Aug. 03, 2016
Fletcherize\FLECH-uh-rahyz\verb
1. to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.
Quotes... don't choke down your food. Eat slowly. Fletcherize--chew
your food, you know. I know you're nearly famished, but you must
gradually accustom yourself to a proper diet.
-- L. Frank Baum, Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, 1914
Origin of FletcherizeFletcherize is the verb form of Fletcherism,
"the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided,
liquefied mass." The method gets its name from U.S. nutritionist Horace
Fletcher. Both the verb and noun entered English in the early
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