cud

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

Leah Hager Cohen: How I Write

Noah Charney

September 12, 2012

There was, however, usually something else to be done, for there was always their cud to chew.

And he wad aye mak an honest baubee whan he cud; for siller was fell scarce at that time o' day amo' the Falconers.

P'raps de great sorrer war so big in har heart, dat she cudn't fine rest nowhar but in de cole, dark riber.

By the Mosaic law, the Camel was a forbidden animal, because it did not divide the hoof, although it chewed the cud.

I'd tuk one ob de guns—you warn't in de hous, massa, so I cudn't ax you.'