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The raffish mongrel was apparently endeavouring to fletcherize a complete stranger of the
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Two days after the first regulations of the Food Administration were announced, to hooverize appeared spontaneously in scores of newspapers, and a week later it was employed without any visible sense of its novelty in the debates of Congress and had taken on a respectability equal to that of to bryanize, to fletcherize and to oslerize.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921
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Women must learn to fletcherize freedom if it is not to give them indigestion of purpose.
The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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The two extra months at sea gave him an insight into a great business, and he had the time to fletcherize his ideas.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
whichbe commented on the word fletcherize
To chew each piece of food at least thirty times.
May 14, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word fletcherize
(verb) - To chew thoroughly. --Mitford Mathews' Dictionary of Americanisms, 1956
April 23, 2018
neilturn commented on the word fletcherize
Well-chewed, after the US nutritionist Horace Fletcher (1849-1919) who recommended this
July 28, 2021