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🐄 Partly digested food 🫛 A chewable wad
cud

cud

4 8.8
Partly digested food that a cow or sheep brings back to its mouth to chew again
  • noun
  • /kʌd/
translation icon : bolo alimenticio
  • I was just passing the time, chewing the cud, that's all.
  • chewing its cud

Examples

  • The cows grazed in the field, taking breaks to chew their cud peacefully.

  • Val stares at the cows chewing their cud and perks up as he gets an idea.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Quit chewing the cud and get going.

    Bronco Billy (1980)

  • The sins of the father: rabbits do not chew their cud.

    Blog text (14)

  • The oxen were lying down, chewing the cud.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Daisy looked back at him with large liquid eyes as she chewed the cud contentedly.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Goats sheltered themselves beneath the eaves of the huts, chewing their cuds and shaking their beards.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • After eating grass, ruminants often return to chew their cud for better digestion.

  • She watched the herd of cattle chewing their cud under the warm afternoon sun.

Synonyms

rechewed food
vscud
  • Specialized
9.9

Food that a cow or sheep brings up and chews again to help digestion

is the same idea but phrased as food returned from the stomach

Idioms

to chew the cud
  • Informal
7.7

To talk in a relaxed way about old times

Surface Forms

cud singular
cuds plural

Etymology

Cud comes from an Old English word for a 'chewed lump' that a cow or sheep brings back into its mouth to chew again, so cud today means the partly digested food ruminant animals chew a second time.