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cud

[kuhd] / kʌd /
NOUN
ruminant food
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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

They also spent more time lounging around the barn as they chewed their cud and ruminated the universe.

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2022

They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

These chewed-over cuds matter less than it might seem.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2010

He says too there are a good many bulls still in the ring who seem to have lost their cuds.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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



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