Definitions: to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.
Citations:
... 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.
Maybe you don't know about Fletcherizing, and you ought to be thankful you don't, but you can't Fletcherize a gizzard, not if you chew all night, and if there's breast enough everybody, I think he'd better have that.
Origin:
Fletcherize 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 1900s.
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