- fletcherize
- To chew each piece of food at least thirty times
Grandiloquent dictionary. 2006.
fletcherize
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Fletcherize your food — chew your food many times, chew your food until it is easy to digest Here, Fletcherize this. Yuk, your pancakes are as tough as leather! … English idioms
Fletcherize — /flech euh ruyz /, v.i., v.t., Fletcherized, Fletcherizing. to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. Also, esp. Brit., Fletcherise. [1900 05, Amer.; see FLETCHERISM, IZE] * * * … Universalium
fletcherize — fletch·er·ize or Brit fletch·er·ise .īz vt, ized or Brit ised; iz·ing or Brit is·ing to reduce (food) to tiny particles esp. by prolonged chewing … Medical dictionary
Fletcherize — n. chew food slowly and thoroughly … English contemporary dictionary
fletcherize — fletch·er·ize … English syllables
fletcherize — ˌrīz transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Horace Fletcher + English ize : to reduce (food) to tiny particles especially by prolonged chewing * * * /flech euh ruyz /, v.i., v.t., Fletcherized, Fletcherizing. to chew… … Useful english dictionary
masticate — v 1. chew, crunch, craunch, munch, champ, mumble, gnaw, nibble, bite, Dial. chaw, Archaic. manducate; chew well, Fletcherize; ruminate, remasticate, rechew, chew the cud. 2. pulverize, comminute, triturate, levigate, powder, granulate, break down … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
