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fletcherize
verb 2
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4ADJ.
enthusiastic
VERB + FLETCHERIZE
continue, don't, tell
PREP.
about
ADV.
properly
Definitions
verb
1
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.
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!
2
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).
Indeed he may fletcherize a truth mentally, all day long, and not get action. Thus he will not grow and develop.
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If you have learned to chew your food, continue to fletcherize, be enthusiastic about it.
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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. Ch
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I am assured that if a man chews it in the manner invented by M. Fletcher of the United States, he can live for an unlimited period on four ounces a day .... We have therefore food for one man for for
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