fodder
IPA: fˈɑdɝ
noun
- Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
- (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
- (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
- (figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
- (cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
- People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
verb
- (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
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Examples of "fodder" in Sentences
- Presumably it made the crossing in fodder or bedding for domestic animals.
- Exactly we are cannon fodder (maybe coffin fodder) to them … walking wallets to drain and ditch.
- This is a conversation hubby and I need to have again. .thanks for the brain fodder! gingajoy Said,
- The key to finding good humor fodder is that the story must be NEARLY funny without being completely funny on its own.
- I doubt they'd call it "determination to remain fodder," but there are certainly self-fulfilling negative prophecies at work.
- Hay is scarcely ever used in this part of the country, but, in place of it, the inhabitants feed their cattle with what they call fodder, the leaves of the Indian corn-plant.
- Will this session be the one where we charted a definitive new course and returned to our proud roots as the Land of Lincoln - or did we squander the opportunity and thereby remain fodder for Saturday Night Live's next popular skit?
- In the fall corn was gathered, first by topping it and the tops were then used in making what they called a fodder house, by sticking crotches in the ground and covering with stalks, often being forty rods in length, then the corn was taken off and thrown into piles, shucks all on.
- Obviously you gents don't realize that we have both summer and winter runs that you can fish for in lots of little creeks that flow directly to the ocean ... lots of log jams, underbrush and yes you can really crush em on a slinky and glo bug ... but what this fodder is about is really transplanted steelhead that have lost any inkling to their genetic strain and are a fine game fish at that.
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