Fletcherize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.
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to consider deliberately; meditate thoroughly on; chew over.
The two extra months at sea gave him an insight into a great business, and he had the time to fletcherize his ideas.
Etymology
Origin of Fletcherize
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; see Fletcherism, -ize
Example Sentences
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Don't gobble your food but "Fletcherize" Each morsel you eat, if you'd be wise.
From Time Magazine Archive
As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance.
From Time Magazine Archive
I like to Fletcherize them with my mind, and with those senses which my mind can set astir.
From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch
They will32 Fletcherize for a time and then say there is nothing to that because it does not cure them.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
At first people who Fletcherize or chew their food perfectly, usually lose weight.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
Or, to put it more crudely, he is emotion Fletcherized to the point of inanition.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
At one chew per second, the Fletcherizing of a single bite of shallot would take more than 10 minutes.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
“Who has time for this?” was the reaction of Jaime Aranda-Michel, a gastroenterologist with the Mayo Foundation, when I called to ask him about Fletcherizing.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
Now with Fletcherizing you have a perfectly good handle, but you know very well that you can't cut a tree down with only an axe handle.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
For one day, two days, Etienne stood at the window, Fletcherizing his finger nails and shrieking and moaning at the monotony.
From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.
It was a new idea, and he bent himself to the Fletcherizing of it.
From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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