fodder
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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.
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fodder
(ˈfɒdə)n
1. (Agriculture) bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
2. raw experience or material: fodder for the imagination.
vb
(Agriculture) (tr) to supply (livestock) with fodder
[Old English fōdor; related to Old Norse fōthr, Old High German fuotar; see food, forage]
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fod•der
(ˈfɒd ər)n.
1. coarse food for livestock.
2. people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.
3. raw material.
v.t. 4. to feed with or as if with fodder.
[before 1000; Middle English; Old English fodder]
syn: See feed.
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fodder
Past participle: foddered
Gerund: foddering
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| Noun | 1. | fodder - soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech soldier - an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention" |
| 2. |  fodder - coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal cropeatage, forage, pasturage, pasture, grass - bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle alfalfa - leguminous plant grown for hay or forage horse bean, broad bean - a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder hay - grass mowed and cured for use as fodder stover - the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested | |
| Verb | 1. | fodder - give fodder (to domesticated animals) |
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fodder
noun feed, food, rations, tack (informal), foodstuff, kai (N.Z. informal), forage, victuals, provender, vittles (obsolete or dialect) fodder for horses
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Translations
عَلَف ، كَلأ
krmivo
foder
sööt
rehu
skepnufóîur
cibus
lopbarība
foder
hayvan yemi
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fodder
n (lit, fig) → Futter nt
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fodder
(ˈfodə) noun food for farm animals.
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