cud
- n food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
- n a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine).
- Indolent cows languidly chewing their cud while befuddled motorists honk and maneuver their vehicles around them is an image as stereotypically Indian as saffron-clad holy men and .
- Summer music festivals usually meander through the hot weather months peacefully masticating a cud of predigested opera and alfalfa-flavored chamber music.