cud

plural cuds

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

present singular third person cuds · participle present cudding · participle past cudded · past cudded

1. transitiveTo bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.

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   Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.

   1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC

   […] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.

   1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, published 2009, Part One, Chapter Two

1. informalnonstandardpronunciation spellingEye 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.

   1899, Jack London, The Men of Forty-Mile

1. abbreviationacronymuncountablecomputingAcronym of create, update, delete, the basic operations of a database management system.
2. abbreviationinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of cannabis use disorder.

   [T]he Diagnostic and Statistical Manual defines CUD in part as “an inability to stop using marijuana even though it’s causing health and social problems.”

   2024 July 3, Charles Fain Lehman, “The Real Problem With Legal Weed”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2024

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   The study’s authors stated that in 2021, CUD played an integral role in 15% of cases occurring in men aged 16 to 49, and in 4% of cases affecting women in the same age range.

   2023 May 8, Jeanette Settembre, “Heavy cannabis use linked to schizophrenia in young men: study”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2023

   Studies have shown the risk of developing CUD is greater for those who start using before the age of 25, as Amy did, and for those who use heavily or have pre-existing mental health issues or genetic predispositions to developing addiction.

   2026 May 8, Shannon Keating, “I didn’t think I could get addicted to weed. I was wrong – and I’m not alone”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2026