the practice of chewing food thoroughly and drinking liquids in small sips to aid digestion
Word origin
C20: named after Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), American nutritionist
Fletcherism in American English
(ˈfletʃəˌrɪzəm)
noun
the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist
Word origin
[1905–10, Amer.; Fletcher + -ism]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: jazz, one-shot, revolving door, stabilizer, thiamine-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)