CUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cud mean? 

• CUD (noun)
  The noun CUD has 2 senses:

1. food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

2. a wad of something chewable as tobacco

  Familiarity information: CUD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cud; rechewed food

Hypernyms ("cud" is a kind of...):

feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wad of something chewable as tobacco

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chaw; chew; cud; plug; quid; wad

Hypernyms ("cud" is a kind of...):

bit; bite; morsel (a small amount of solid food; a mouthful)

 Context examples 

The sun was yet low in the heaven, and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms, chewing the cud and gazing with great vacant eyes at two horsemen who were spurring it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and pinnacles beneath the flat-topped hill marked the old town of Winchester.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What I was after wantin' was all the goold, the whole eight thousan'. Thin I cud go back in style. What ud be aisier, thinks I to myself, than to kill all iv yez, report it at Skaguay for an Indian-killin', an' thin pull out for Ireland?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)