Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again.
- noun Something held in the mouth and chewed, such as a plug of tobacco.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun A quid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
- noun Low A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
- noun The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
- noun to ruminate; to meditate; used with
of .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The portion of
food which is brought back into themouth byruminating animals from their first stomach, to bechewed a second time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- noun food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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? 2008
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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.
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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.
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Placid is one word, stupidly stitting around chewing the cud is another.
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Placid is one word, stupidly stitting around chewing the cud is another.
Jacqui Smith: Bovine faced fat arsed cud chewing Home Sec. FIDO The Dog 2008
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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.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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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 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Rottie, a ruminant ruminates, i.e. chews his cud, which is the food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
TPMCafe 2010
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Rottie, a ruminant ruminates, i.e. chews his cud, which is the food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
TPMCafe 2010
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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? 2008
brtom commented on the word cud
"No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cud
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.
April 21, 2008