Cud definition
Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again.
noun
Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again.
noun
A mouthful of previously swallowed food regurgitated from the first two chambers of the stomach of cattle and other ruminants back to the mouth, where it is chewed slowly a second time.
noun
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.
The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
noun
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Something held in the mouth and chewed, such as a plug of tobacco.
noun
chew the cud
- to recall and think over something; ruminate; ponder
idiom
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
cud
Plural:
cudsIdioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of cud
- Middle English from Old English cudu
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English cudu, earlier cwidu, of Proto-Indo-European origin. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
From Wiktionary