CUD

chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad

(noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco

cud, rechewed food

(noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

cud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)

The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

Verb

cud (third-person singular simple present cuds, present participle cudding, simple past and past participle cudded)

(transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.

Etymology 2

Verb

cud

(nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of could

Anagrams

• CDU, DCU, UCD, UDC, ucd

Noun

CUD (uncountable)

(database, programming) The basic operations of a database management system; Acronym of create, update, delete.

Anagrams

• CDU, DCU, UCD, UDC, ucd

Source: Wiktionary

Cud (kd), n Etym: [AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. k bait, Icel. kvi womb, Goth. qipus. Cf. Quid.]

1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]

3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb. To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition