Fletcherism
Meanings
noun
- A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.
Word forms
Etymology
From Fletcher + -ism, after Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), American health-food enthusiast of the Victorian era.
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