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▪ I. cud, n.|kʌd|
Forms: 1 cwidu, cwudu, cudu, 2–5 cude, (4–5 kude), 3–5 code, (4–5 kode), 4–5 cod(de, quede, 4–7 cudde, (5–6 kudde), 4–8 quide, 7 cood, 8–9 dial. quid, 9 dial. queed, keed, 4– cud.
[OE. cwidu (cweodu, cwudu, cudu) neut., gen. cwidues. App. radically identical with OHG. chuti, quiti glue, glutinous substance; stem kwed-, cf. Skr. jatu resin; in ablaut relation with ON. kváða, Sw. kåda resin, ME. code2.]
1. a. The food which a ruminating animal brings back into its mouth from its first stomach, and chews at leisure. Usually in to chew the cud.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives (Skeat) xxv. 46 Þa clænan nytenu þe heora cudu ceowað. c1200Ormin 1237 & oxe chewweþþ þær he gaþ Hiss cŭde. a1300Cursor M. 1958 (Cott.) O beist has clouen fote in tua An chewand cude [v.r. code], ȝee ete o þaa. 1382Wyclif Deut. xiv. 6 All beest that in two partis deuydith the clee and chewith code [1388 quide]. c1440Promp. Parv. 85 Cudde of bestys chewynge [1499 cod], rumen. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 40 A handfull of the hearbe called Cud-wort, which they..conueigh..into the beasts mouth to swallow, that hath lost his quide. 1591Spenser Virg. Gnat 144 The whiles his flock their chawed cuds do eate. 1736Pegge Kenticisms, Quid, the cud. 1852N. Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xxiv, They began grazing and chewing their cuds. 1880Antrim Gloss., Keed, cud. 1888W. Somerset Word-bk., Queed, cud. Always so pronounced.
b. fig. to chew the cud: to recall and reflect meditatively on things said, done, or suffered; to ruminate: see chew v. 4 b.
2. Any substance used by men to keep in the mouth and chew. In OE. hwít cwidu, cudu, mastic. Now a dial. form of quid (of tobacco).
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 66 Hwit cwudu. Ibid. 182 Mid hwites cwidues duste. 1828Webster, Cud..2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Cud, a quid of tobacco.
†3. See quots. (? An error: not in Johnson.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cud, the inner part of the Throat in Beasts. 1721in Bailey. 1828Webster, Cud, the inside of the mouth or throat of a beast that chews the cud.
4. Comb., as cud-chewing ppl. a.; † cud-bream (see quot.); cud-chewer, a ruminant animal.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 314 The delicate, cud-chewing Golden-eye. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 268 There is a kind of Bream called Scarus ruminans, which we call a Cud-bream, because his Lips are ever wagging like a Cow chawing the Cud. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 205 The cud-chewing cow. 1927Haldane & Huxley Anim. Biol. iv. 112 In cud-chewers like the cow and sheep.
▪ II. † cud, v. Obs. rare.
[f. the n.]
trans. To chew as cud, ruminate upon.
1569Crowley Soph. Dr. Watson i. 127 Cudding the holy scriptures with a spiritual tooth [transl. spirituali dente ruminans scripturas]. 1966New Statesman 1 Apr. 473/1 Cows..Cudding, watching, and knowing. |