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Fletcherizing

NOUN
mastication
Synonyms


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“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

At one chew per second, the Fletcherizing of a single bite of shallot would take more than 10 minutes.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013

Many consider that the chief advantage of Fletcherizing is that it makes a person eat less.

From How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

The main objection I see to it is that one eats too fast, and Fletcherizing is not known in this country.

From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John

It was a new idea, and he bent himself to the Fletcherizing of it.

From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)