Definitions for cud

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Spelling: [kuhd]
IPA: /kʌd/

Cud is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in cud (cdu).

Definitions for cud

noun

  1. the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
  2. Dialect. quid1 .

Idioms

  1. chew one's / the cud, Informal. to meditate or ponder; ruminate.

Origin of cud

before 1000; Middle English; Old English cudu, variant of cwiodu, cwidu; akin to Old High German quiti glue, Sanskrit jatu resin, gum. See quid1

Examples for cud

More than ever now my father chewed the cud of his great disappointment.

It had cost as near as she "cud reckon, 'bout two thousan' dollars."

He had chewed the cud of his own virtue for too long a time, and it had given him a sour stomach.

Among these the sheep graze, the donkeys bray, and the cows chew the cud.

Naething ever onybody said cud gar me think different o' him!'

If they didn't, th' best they cud do was to say nawthin' about it.

I sometimes sit there chewing a phrase like a cow with cud a while before going on.

If there be aught of memory in him, let him sit and chew the cud thereof.

In a word, the gum-chewing Americans are trying to chew their cud as did their ancestors.

Chew you the cud of that until the hangman's coming in the morning.

Word Value for cud
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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