cud
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She said it was "so lovely that anybody would bother to come up and chew the cud with you for a while"
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 7, 2023
As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2023
He can chew on his voice like a cow chews its cud.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
He glares at me, his jaw moving back and forth like a cow chewing cud.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
These chewed-over cuds matter less than it might seem.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2010
Last week Molly Lewis, 15, and her daughter, 7, chewed their cuds as placidly as usual but the rest of the Gibson estate was in commotion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Black-and-white Holsteins chew their cuds in a lazy rhythm.
From Time Magazine Archive
He says too there are a good many bulls still in the ring who seem to have lost their cuds.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the evenings they waited for him, chewing their cuds by the shed door, and the mule stood by the gate with blind marble eyes.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
