cud

noun
/kʌd//kʊd/

Etymology

From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).

  1. inherited from *kweduz
  2. inherited from *kwidu
  3. inherited from cudu
  4. inherited from code

Definitions

  1. The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen,…

    The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.

  2. To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.

  3. Eye dialect spelling of could.

    • 'Twas the anchor-ice comin' up. To the right, to the lift, as far as iver a man cud see, the water was covered with the same.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Acronym of create, update, delete, the basic operations of a database management system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cud. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cud02rumen03cow04cattle05goats06goat07ruminant

A definitional loop anchored at cud. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at cud

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA