Meaning

noun food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco

originFrom 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”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).

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