fletcherize

Verb

fletcherize (third-person singular simple present fletcherizes, present participle fletcherizing, simple past and past participle fletcherized)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To thoroughly chew (dozens or hundreds of times) before swallowing.
   • If you have learned to chew your food, continue to fletcherize, be enthusiastic about it.1909 September 24, J. H. Kellogg, “Tobacco Deadly Poison in Any and All Doses”, in The Battle Creek Idea, volume II, number 42, Battle Creek, Michigan, page 2
   • William, how many times must I tell you to fletcherize your bones before you swallow them? You might as well be eating bread and butter, or roast beef, if you don't fletcherize your bones properly. Chew each bite of bone four hundred times, young man, or I'll get a jaw-meter and make you wear it!1911 May, Ellis Parker Butler, “The Bone-Crackers: A Dietetic Comedy in One Act”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume XLV, number II, page 204
2. (broadly, figuratively) To consume, to devour, to bite, to chew over.
   • Annette Fletcherized large numbers of romantic novels which she obtained at a free public library branch (donated by one of the biggest caliphs in the business).1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “(please specify the story)”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC
   • Indeed he may fletcherize a truth mentally, all day long, and not get action. Thus he will not grow and develop.1913, William Thomas Goffe, Problems in Retail Selling, Analyzed, page 71