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fod⋅der

[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)
4. to feed with or as if with fodder.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE fodder, fōdor; c. G Futter; akin to food


1. See feed.
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fod·der   (fŏd'ər)   
n.  
  1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.

  2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.

  3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.

tr.v.   fod·dered, fod·der·ing, fod·ders
To feed with fodder.

[Middle English, from Old English fōdor; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Fodder

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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