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Cud
Definitions
- 1 The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time. countable, uncountable
- 2 Acronym of create, update, delete, the basic operations of a database management system. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 3 a wad of something chewable as tobacco wordnet
- 4 food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again wordnet
- 1 To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time. transitive
"Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder."
- 2 Eye dialect spelling of could. alt-of, informal, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling
"'Twas the anchor-ice comin' up. To the right, to the lift, as far as iver a man cud see, the water was covered with the same."
Etymology
From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Shortened form of could.
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