fodder
coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.
raw material: fodder for a comedian's routine.
to feed with or as if with fodder.
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How to use fodder in a sentence
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.
Wednesday’s FAAMG-led sell-off was no blip, tech bears say | Bernhard Warner | October 29, 2020 | FortuneSo 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.
Astronauts on the ISS are hunting for the source of another mystery air leak | Neel Patel | September 30, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSo I think policy disputes aren’t likely to become big fodder.
Will The First Presidential Debate Shake Up The Race? | Sarah Frostenson (sarah.frostenson@abc.com) | September 29, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
This video should give Disney enough fodder to create an action-packed Dumbo/Lion King crossover sequel.
Young Elephant Takes on 14 Lions and Survives! | Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast Video | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the downside, it rewards them with fodder for nightmares.
Jimmy Kimmel Pranks Kids (Again), Taylor Swift’s 1989 Aerobics, and More Viral Videos | The Daily Beast Video | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe Americans, as the postmodern conservative professor Peter Lawler has put it, refuse to see ourselves as mere "history fodder."
Meet The Democrats’ Secret Savior Against Cuomo Corporatism | James Poulos | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere 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.
Idris Elba’s Battle of the Bulge: Moose Knuckles and Sexist Double Standards | Keli Goff | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousMany of the inhabitants came out of their houses and gave it fodder, and every passer-by turned out of the way for it.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferClover, 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.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramPraise the liberal Maruts, and may they delight on the path of this man here who praises them, like cows in fodder.
Sacred Books of the East | Various
British Dictionary definitions for fodder
/ (ˈfɒdə) /
bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
raw experience or material: fodder for the imagination
(tr) to supply (livestock) with fodder
Origin of fodder
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