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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 .
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 quid 1
cud   (kŭd)   
n.  
  1. Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again.
  2. Something held in the mouth and chewed, such as a quid of tobacco.

[Middle English, from Old English cudu.]

Cud

Cud\ (k[u^]d), n. [AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. k["o]der bait, Icel. kvi[eth]r womb, Goth. qi[thorn]us. Cf. Quid.]

1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. --Levit. xi. 3

2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]

3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts. --Crabb.

To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories.

Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath. --Tennyson.
Language Translation for : cud
Spanish: rumiar,
German: wiederkäuen,
Japanese: 反すうする

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

Main Entry: cud
Pronunciation: 'k&d, 'kud
Function: noun
: food brought up into the mouth by a ruminating animal from its first stomach to be chewedagain
cud   (kŭd)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
CUD
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