chew the cud

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Verb

chew the cud

(agriculture) to ruminate (of ruminant animals)
(figuratively, idiomatic, of a person) to meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate
- Tennyson
  chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath

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Translations

literal meaning

Finnish: märehtiä (fi)
Hungarian: kérődzik (hu)
Latin: rūmīnō
Navajo: náʼátʼaał

Scottish Gaelic: ath-chagainn
Telugu: నెమరువేయు (te) (nemaruvēyu)
Vietnamese: nhơi (vi)

to meditate or ponder before answering

Finnish: märehtiä (fi)

See also

chew the fat

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