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cud
[ kuhd ]
noun
- the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- Dialect. quid 1.
cud
/ kʌd /
noun
- partially digested food regurgitated from the first stomach of cattle and other ruminants to the mouth for a second chewing
- chew the cudto reflect or think over something
cud
/ kŭd /
- 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.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cud1
Idioms and Phrases
- chew one's / the cud, Informal. to meditate or ponder; ruminate.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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