chew the cud

verb

Definitions

  1. To ruminate (of ruminant animals).

  2. To meditate or ponder before answering

    To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate.

    • chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath
    • George sat chewing the cud over matters. Unhappy memories.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chew the cud. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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