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cud

[ kuhd ]

noun

  1. the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
  2. Dialect. quid 1.


cud

/ kʌd /

noun

  1. partially digested food regurgitated from the first stomach of cattle and other ruminants to the mouth for a second chewing
  2. chew the cud
    to reflect or think over something
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cud

/ kŭd /

  1. Food that has been partly digested and brought up from the first stomach to the mouth again for further chewing by ruminants, such as cattle and sheep.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cud1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English cudu, variant of cwiodu, cwidu; akin to Old High German quiti glue, Sanskrit jatu resin, gum. See quid 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cud1

Old English cudu, from cwidu what has been chewed; related to Old Norse kvātha resin (for chewing), Old High German quiti glue, Sanskrit jatu rubber
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. chew one's / the cud, Informal. to meditate or ponder; ruminate.
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Example Sentences

I sometimes sit there chewing a phrase like a cow with cud a while before going on.

He was standing in about two feet of cold spring water contentedly chewing his cud.

Molly Donahue wants a vote, but though she cud bound Kamachatka as aisily as ye cud this precint, she ain't qualified f'r it.

He cudden't find a goold mine f'r ye but he cud see th' bottom iv wan through three thousand feet iv bullyon.

Th' on'y way ye or me cud rightly exthricate anny money fr'm a bank wud be be means iv a brace an' bit.

An' with th' missionaries we sint sharpshooters that cud pick off a Chinyman beatin' th' conthribution box at five hundherd yards.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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