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fod·der    Audio Help   [fod-er] Pronunciation Key
–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    Audio Help   (fŏd'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
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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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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fodder

noun
1. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire [syn: cannon fodder
2. coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop 

verb
1. give fodder (to domesticated animals) 

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fodder [ˈfodə] noun
food for farm animals
Arabic: عَلَف ، كَلأ
Chinese (Simplified): 饲料
Chinese (Traditional): 飼料
Czech: krmivo
Danish: foder
Dutch: voeder
Estonian: sööt
Finnish: rehu
French: fourrage
German: das Futter
Greek: ζωοτροφή
Hungarian: takarmány
Icelandic: skepnufóður
Indonesian: makanan ternak
Italian: foraggio
Japanese: 飼料
Korean: 가축의 먹이, 사료
Latvian: lopbarība
Lithuanian: pašaras
Norwegian: fôr
Polish: pasza
Portuguese (Brazil): forragem
Portuguese (Portugal): forragem
Romanian: furaj
Russian: фураж
Slovak: krmivo
Slovenian: krma
Spanish: pienso, forraje
Swedish: foder
Turkish: hayvan yemi
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Fodder

Fod"der\, n. [See 1st Fother.] A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 191/2 to 24 cwt.; a fother. [Obs.]
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Fodder

Fod"der\, n. [AS. f?dder, f?ddor, fodder (also sheath case), fr. f?da food; akin to D. voeder, OHG. fuotar, G. futter, Icel. f?r, Sw. & Dan. foder. [root]75. See Food Land cf. Forage, Fur.] That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
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Fodder

Fod"der\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. Foddered (-d?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Foddering.] To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
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