cud

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The chewing of the cud was a mistake, for the coney does not do so, but it has a way of moving its jaws which might lead to the idea that it ruminates.

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

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  • While chewing their cud, the animals bring up the fruit into the mouth, "chew off the flesh and drop the seeds in little piles on the ground." —  The annotated budak
  • Lt. David Aamodt says police in Cudahy (cud-uh-HAY ') were called Tuesday to check on the woman after family members could not reach her for several days.
  • Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Three cows stood chewing their cud, and waiting to be milked, a scattering of fowls was shaking off dull sleep, and making no little ado about it, and near the door a shock-headed youth was rubbing both eyes with both hands Betty and John walked on. —  An Australian Lassie
  • It must in addition to this chew the cud--it must ruminate. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
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  1. Middle English, from Old English cudu.

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  1. from Middle English cudde, cude, code, variant quide, quede (later English quid, q. v.), from Anglo-Saxon cudu, cwidu, cud (def. 1), also in hwit cudu (also hwīt cwudu, cwidu, cweodo, genitive cwidues, cweodowes), mastic, literally ‘white cud’; usually derived, as ‘that which is chewed,’ from ceówan, E. chew; but the orig. form of the word is cwidu (whence the modern form quid, q. v.), and neither cudunor cwidu can be formed from ceówan, Teutonic √ *ku, *kiu, by any regular process. The word agrees more nearly (though the connection is doubtful) with Anglo-Saxon cwith = Old High German quhiti = Icelandic kvidhr = Gothic (Moesogothic) kwithus, stomach, belly, womb (in Anglo-Saxon only in last sense), prob. = Latin venter = Greek γαστήρ = Sanskrit jathara, belly: see venter, ventral, etc., gastric, etc.
 

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