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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A portion of food voluntarily forced into the mouth from the first stomach by a ruminating animal, and leisurely chewed a second time. See ruminate, rumination.
  2. n. A quid.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
  2. n. Low A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
  3. n. The first stomach of ruminating beasts.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
  2. n. food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

Etymologies

  1. From Old English cudu, earlier cwidu, of Proto-Indo-European origin. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, "lac, gum"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English cudu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “O, da karnij..cud lectocyoot sum inosint maus, or cud put eye aut!”

    Iz a perfikly gud lolcat… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

  • “Camels chew their cuds (a cud is what they bring up from the reticulum portion of their 4-chambered stomach to chew again), but they have 2 toes.”

    Discourse.net: Just Passing Through

  • “For six hours, the crew's members tackled tall grass and thorny blackberry plants and toiled without a break other than to chew their cud, that is.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Free-Range Landscaping

  • “Placid is one word, stupidly stitting around chewing the cud is another.”

    Jacqui Smith: Bovine faced fat arsed cud chewing Home Sec.

  • “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.”

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

  • “Chiselbob, woodlouse; also called a cud-worm, and, rolled in a pill, put down the throat of a cow to promote the restoration of her cud, which she was supposed to have lost.”

    John Keble's Parishes

  • “Rottie, a ruminant ruminates, i.e. chews his cud, which is the food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.”

    TPMCafe

  • “July 9, 2008 at 7:14 am mai guess iz taht itz sumwun whoo came here wunst or twyste, maded a few lolz, tehn found sumfing else too doo. tihs guy onlee haz a few pics & lols — no faves, even. an teh faves thing haz bin around foar awhyle. almoast eberywun whoo libs heer haz at leest wun fave. usin “maus” name cud be just coinkydink — ai knew sumwun in collige wif taht niknayme — an even ‘tess’ an ‘tessm’ gets takin lotsa plaises. but it duzzint help owr Maus owt…”

    going to bed without diner - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

  • “pseudo-rumination" from the characteristics of ruminants (cows sheep and others) that chew the cud, which is food regurgitated and chewed again.”

    Chapter 10

  • “Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., the minority whip, dismisses the current House Republican agenda as "cud," the regurgitated food that cows chew a second time.”

    Damn them.

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. quid

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. bit
  1. morsel
  1. bite
  1. provender
  1. feed

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. wud
  2. debil
  3. ud
  1. wont
  2. to
  3. thou'lt
  1. 'to
  2. lief
  3. missus
  1. chaw
  2. youcan
  3. dinna
  1. mem'ry
  2. didnt
  3. canst
  1. Missie

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. rumination
  2. chaw
  3. chew
  1. non-ruminantia
  2. remasticate
  3. rumen
  1. ruminate
  2. vicugna vicugna
  3. vicuña
  1. ruminant
  2. first stomach
  3. llama
  1. camel
  2. quid
  3. ruminantly
  1. pachydermata
  2. ruminantia

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  • reesetee In coinmaking, an area of a coin struck by a die that has a complete break across part of its surface. May be either "retained," in which the faulty piece of the die is still in place, or "full," in which the piece of the die has fallen away. Retained cuds usually have dentil detail if on the edge; full cuds do not. Apr 21, 2008

  • brtom "No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence ..."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 20, 2007

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