fodder
Use Fodder in a sentence
ər 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)
4.
to feed with or as if with fodder.
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World English Dictionary
fodder (ˈfɒdə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc |
| 2. | raw experience or material: fodder for the imagination |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to supply (livestock) with fodder |
| [Old English fōdor; related to Old Norse fōthr, Old High German fuotar; see | |
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Word Origin & History
fodder
O.E. fodor "food," especially "food for cattle," from P.Gmc. *fodran (cf. O.N. foðr, M.Du. voeder, O.H.G. fuotar, Ger. Futter), from PIE *patrom, from *pat- "to feed" (see food).
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Fodder definition
Heb. belil, (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago), "made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to cattle" (Job 24:6, A.V. "corn," R.V. "provender;" Isa. 30:24, provender").
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
Sugar beets were derived directly from fodder beets which are commonly grown for livestock feed.
He encourages farmers to bale corn and soybean fodder for feed.
Complexity does not make fodder for honest quips and barbs.
Then there's fodder for partisans who value being told that they're on the side of the angels while their opponents are jerks.
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