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fodder

[ fod-er ]

noun

  1. coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
  2. people considered as readily available and of little value:

    cannon fodder.

  3. raw material:

    fodder for a comedian's routine.



verb (used with object)

  1. to feed with or as if with fodder.

fodder

/ ˈfɒdə /

noun

  1. bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
  2. raw experience or material

    fodder for the imagination

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to supply (livestock) with fodder
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fodder1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English fodder, fōdor; cognate with German Futter; akin to food
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fodder1

Old English fōdor ; related to Old Norse fōthr , Old High German fuotar ; see food , forage
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Synonym Study

See feed.
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Example Sentences

Epidemiological concepts like “herd immunity” and “aerosol transmission” are now fodder for casual conversations.

That’d be fodder for bears like David Einhorn, who called an “enormous” bubble in tech stocks and said his firm has added bearish wagers.

From Fortune

So all that said, Briggs is clearly the underdog but Mara has given him a lot of fodder and it has helped him string together a network of her critics that may cause the night to be closer than we all would have thought.

The mystery of that leak was great fodder for conspiracy theorists, but the fact that the hole was accidentally made by a drill was lucky.

So I think policy disputes aren’t likely to become big fodder.

This video should give Disney enough fodder to create an action-packed Dumbo/Lion King crossover sequel.

On the downside, it rewards them with fodder for nightmares.

We Americans, as the postmodern conservative professor Peter Lawler has put it, refuse to see ourselves as mere "history fodder."

There is a long history of the mammary glands as comedy fodder.

So, after toiling away for two decades, Elba has finally crossed over from critically acclaimed actor to bona fide tabloid fodder.

He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.

Many of the inhabitants came out of their houses and gave it fodder, and every passer-by turned out of the way for it.

Clover, lucerne, ryegrass and similar grasses have been introduced to improve and vary the fodder.

Millet and rice are the staple crops; the former furnishing food both for man and beast, for its long stalks are excellent fodder.

Praise the liberal Maruts, and may they delight on the path of this man here who praises them, like cows in fodder.

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