cud
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| 1. | the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time. |
| 2. | Dialect. quid1. |
| 3. | chew one's or the cud, Informal. to meditate or ponder; ruminate. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE cudu, var. of cwiodu, cwidu; akin to OHG quiti glue, Skt jatu resin, gum. See quid1
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cud
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| cud
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n.
[Middle English, from Old English cudu.] |
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cud
O.E. cudu "cud," earlier cwudu, from PIE base *gwet- "resin, gum."
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| cud | |
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| 1. | food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again |
| 2. | a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
cud [kad]
(of cows etc) to bring food from the stomach back into the mouth and chew it again
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| cud
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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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Cud
Chud\, v. t. [Cf. Chew, Cud.] To champ; to bite. [Obs.] --A. Stafford.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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