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Cud vs Wud - What's the difference?

cud | wud |

As a noun cud

is the portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

As a verb cud

is could (informal), past of can.

As an adjective wud is

mad.

cud

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cudu, earlier cwidu, of (etyl) origin. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit .

Noun

  • The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

    • Etymology 2

    Shorted form of could.

    Verb

    cud
  • could (informal), past of can.

    • Anagrams

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    wud

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) Mad.
  • * 1887 , '', from ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
    • Janet ran to him - she was fair wud wi' terror - an' clang to him, an' prayed him, for Christ's sake, save her frae the cummers; an' they, for their pairt, tauld him a' that was ken't, and maybe mair.
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