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cud

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1. cud - Noun

2. cud - Verb

Meaning

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

A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.

The first stomach of ruminating beasts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Conversation once colored by esteem Became dialogue as a diagram of a play for blood. Took a vacation, my palate got clean. Now I could taste your agenda While you're spitting your cud. Fiona Apple

Poetic trifles from solitary rambles whilst chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy.. now written from memory, confined to fourteen lines, this seemed best adapted to the unity of sentiment, the verse flowed in unpremeditated harmony as my ear directed but are far from being mere elegiac couplets. William Lisle Bowles

Dealing with answered questions is the privilege of brains constructed like a cow's stomach, which, as we know, is built to digest cud. Yevgeny Zamyatin

Mammals that both chew their cud ( ruminate ) and have cloven hooves can be kosher. Source: Internet

Rabbits reingest their own droppings (rather than chewing the cud as do cows and many other herbivores) to digest their food and extract sufficient nutrients. Source: Internet

Cud” is a substance (partly digested food that’s chewed again), so it’s a singular mass noun in the ordinary sense: “The cow seems contented to chew its cud.” Source: Internet

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