cud
/kʌd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.40 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Acronym of create, update, delete, the basic operations of a database management system.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
- "'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."
- "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."
- "[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.”"
- "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."
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”).