"portion of food voluntarily forced into the mouth by the stomach of a ruminating animal," Old English cudu "cud," also "gum, resin, mastic," earlier cwudu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz "resin" (source also of Old Norse kvaða "resin," Old High German quiti "glue," German Kitt "putty").
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