cud

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 kŭd

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time. transitive
    — 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.
  2. Eye dialect spelling of could. alt-of,informal,nonstandard,pronunciation-spelling
    — '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.

词形变化

cuds plural cuds present,singular,third-person cudding participle,present cudded participle,past cudded past

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Shortened form of could.
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