Meaning of Fletcherism | Babel Free

Definitions

A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“Once upon a time, there was a man named Thomas Edison, and he invented the dictating machine and the fluoroscope...and the repeating telegraph. And he was a firm believer in Fletcherism...and he played the organ and his favorite flower was the heliotrope.”

CEFR level