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
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
She and Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left to find the softest bit of floor he could and to cud up under the thinnest, most ragged blanket.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
These chewed-over cuds matter less than it might seem.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2010
Black-and-white Holsteins chew their cuds in a lazy rhythm.
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
He says too there are a good many bulls still in the ring who seem to have lost their cuds.
From Time Magazine Archive
That ought to give the rest of the first grade something to chew their cuds on.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
