cud
/kʌd/
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Northern England/kʊd/
cud noun: the portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time. Also the eye dialect spelling of could.
Noun (1)
cud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)
Verb
cud (third-person singular simple present cuds, present participle cudding, simple past and past participle cudded)
- To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
- 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...1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
- […] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated...1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, published 2009, Part One, Chapter Two
Noun (2) capitalized: CUD
CUD (uncountable)
- Acronym of create, update, delete, the basic operations of a database management system.
- Initialism of cannabis use disorder.
- The study’s authors stated that in 2021, CUD played an integral role in 15% of cases occurring in men aged 16 to 49, and in 4% of cases affecting women in the same age range.2023 May 8, Jeanette Settembre, “Heavy cannabis use linked to schizophrenia in young men: study”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2023
- [T]he Diagnostic and Statistical Manual defines CUD in part as “an inability to stop using marijuana even though it’s causing health and social problems.”2024 July 3, Charles Fain Lehman, “The Real Problem With Legal Weed”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul...
Also used as
cud is also the eye dialect spelling of could.
cud meaning in Tagalog, Arabic, Persian and Thai
cud in Tagalog
- food chewed for a second time by ruminants
- timayok
cud in Arabic
- food chewed for a second time by ruminants
- جِرَّة jirra
cud in Persian
- food chewed for a second time by ruminants
- نشخوار nešxâr
cud in Thai
- food chewed for a second time by ruminants
- เอื้อง ʉ̂ʉang
More languagesFewer languages
- cud in Myanmar
- စမြုံ့ du or c du ca.mrum.
Forms of cud
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cuds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cuds |
| present participle | cudding |
| past participle | cudded |
| past | cudded |
Origin of cud
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.
Words formed from cud
Phrases with cud
Words that rhyme with cud
Questions about cud
- What does cud mean?
- Cud means the portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
- What is cud in Tagalog?
- Cud in Tagalog is timayok. See Cud meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is cud?
- Cud can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cud?
- Cud is pronounced /kʌd/.
- What is the plural of cud?
- The plural of cud is cuds.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cud (page history and authors); CUD (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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