"chew the cud" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-chew the cud.ogg Forms: chews the cud [present, singular, third-person], chewing the cud [participle, present], chewed the cud [participle, past], chewed the cud [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chew the cud (third-person singular simple present chews the cud, present participle chewing the cud, simple past and past participle chewed the cud)
  1. (agriculture) To ruminate (of ruminant animals). Categories (topical): Agriculture Translations (literal meaning): přežvykovat [imperfective] (Czech), herkauwen (Dutch), märehtiä (Finnish), ruminer (French), kérődzik (Hungarian), ruminare (Italian), rūmīnō (Latin), náʼátʼaał (Navajo), ath-chagainn (Scottish Gaelic), నెమరువేయు (nemaruvēyu) (Telugu), geviş getirmek (Turkish), жува́ти жу́йку (žuváty žújku) (Ukrainian), nhơi (Vietnamese)
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  2. (figuratively, idiomatic, of a person) To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic Related terms: chew the fat Translations (to meditate or ponder before answering): přemítat [imperfective] (Czech), märehtiä (Finnish), ruminer (French), sinnieren (German), grübeln (German), nachdenken (German)
    Sense id: en-chew_the_cud-en-verb-Voc-bIDP Disambiguation of 'to meditate or ponder before answering': 6 94

Inflected forms

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