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cud

–noun

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

2.	Dialect. quid¹.

—Idiom

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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n.

Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again.
Something held in the mouth and chewed, such as a quid of tobacco.

[Middle English, from Old English cudu.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
cud

O.E. cudu "cud," earlier cwudu, from PIE base *gwet- "resin, gum."

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cud
noun
1.	food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
2.	a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew]

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cud [kad]

(of cows etc) to bring food from the stomach back into the mouth and chew it again

Arabic:	جِرَّه، ما يَجْتَرُّه الحيوان
Chinese (Simplified):	反刍的食物
Chinese (Traditional):	反芻的食物
Czech:	přežvykovat
Danish:	tygge drøv
Dutch:	herkauwen
Estonian:	mäletsema
Finnish:	märehtiä
French:	ruminer
German:	wiederkäuen
Greek:	μηρυκάζω
Hungarian:	kérődzik
Icelandic:	jórtra
Indonesian:	memamah biak
Italian:	ruminare

Japanese:	反すうする
Latvian:	gremoklis; atgremot gremokli
Lithuanian:	atrajoti
Norwegian:	tygge drøv, jorte
Polish:	przeżuwać
Portuguese (Brazil):	ruminar
Portuguese (Portugal):	ruminar
Romanian:	a rumega
Russian:	жевать жвачку
Slovak:	prežúvať
Slovenian:	prežvekovati
Spanish:	rumiar
Swedish:	boll av idisslad föda: idissla
Turkish:	geviş getirmek

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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.

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CUD
could (shortwave transmission)

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