Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cud
Participle: cudded
Gerund: cudding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cud |
| you | cud |
| he;she;it | cuds |
| we | cud |
| you | cud |
| they | cud |
Perfect
| I | have cudded |
| you | have cudded |
| he;she;it | has cudded |
| we | have cudded |
| you | have cudded |
| they | have cudded |
Past
| I | cudded |
| you | cudded |
| he;she;it | cudded |
| we | cudded |
| you | cudded |
| they | cudded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cudded |
| you | had cudded |
| he;she;it | had cudded |
| we | had cudded |
| you | had cudded |
| they | had cudded |
Future
| I | will cud |
| you | will cud |
| he;she;it | will cud |
| we | will cud |
| you | will cud |
| they | will cud |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cudded |
| you | will have cudded |
| he;she;it | will have cudded |
| we | will have cudded |
| you | will have cudded |
| they | will have cudded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cud |
| you | cud |
| he;she;it | cud |
| we | cud |
| you | cud |
| they | cud |
Perfect
| I | have cudded |
| you | have cudded |
| he;she;it | have cudded |
| we | have cudded |
| you | have cudded |
| they | have cudded |
Imperfect
| I | cudded |
| you | cudded |
| he;she;it | cudded |
| we | cudded |
| you | cudded |
| they | cudded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cudded |
| you | had cudded |
| he;she;it | had cudded |
| we | had cudded |
| you | had cudded |
| they | had cudded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cud |
| you | would cud |
| he;she;it | would cud |
| we | would cud |
| you | would cud |
| they | would cud |
Perfect
| I | would have cudded |
| you | would have cudded |
| he;she;it | would have cudded |
| we | would have cudded |
| you | would have cudded |
| they | would have cudded |
Imperative
| you | cud |
| we | Let's cud |
| you | cud |
Verbs conjugated like 'cud'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cud'
bud,
chud,
cod,
cub,
cue,
cun,
cund,
cup,
curd,
cut,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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”).
2. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Sample Sentences
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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. [1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:]
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[…] 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. [1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, published 2009, Part One, Chapter Two:]