cud Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
    rechewed food.
  2. noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco
    plug; chew; wad; quid; chaw.

WordNet

Cud noun
Etymology
AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. kder bait, Icel. kvir womb, Goth. qipus. Cf. Quid.
Definitions
  1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be cheved a second time.
    Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3
  2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. Low
  3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb.
    Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

Webster 1913