chewing the cud means meditating or pondering.
chewing the cud means meditating or pondering.
what does it mean by chewing the cud?
meditating or pondering
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cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. more accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. the idiomatic expression "chewing one's cud" means "meditating" or "pondering"; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.









































section::::rumination.
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bullet::::- the hyrax, for chewing the cud without having cloven hooves. (the hebrew term for this animal - שפן "shaphan" - has been translated by older english versions of the bible as coney; the existence of the hyrax wasn't known to early english translators. the coney was an exclusively european animal, not present in canaan, while the "shaphan" was described by the book of proverbs as living on rocks like the hyrax, but unlike the coney.)









































bullet::::- the hare, for chewing the cud without having cloven hooves.









































bullet::::- the pig, for having cloven hooves without chewing the cud.
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