Meaning & use
cud
Partly digested food that a ruminant animal brings back up from its stomach to chew again.
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The cow lay in the shade slowly chewing its cud after grazing all morning.
Sheep and goats, like cows, also chew cud as part of their digestion process.
A note on using this word
The phrase 'chew the cud' is also used figuratively to mean thinking something over slowly and carefully.
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