fodder

fod·der  (fdr)

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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[Middle English, from Old English fdor; see p- in Indo-European roots.]

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fodder

Noun

bulk feed for livestock, esp. hay or straw [Old English fōdor]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fodder - soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire cannon fodder, fresh fish 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 crop feed, provender - food for domestic livestock eatage, 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) feed, give - give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

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fodder

noun feed, food, rations, tack (informal) foodstuff, kai N.Z. (informal) forage, victuals, provender, vittles (obsolete), (dialect)

Translations

fodder [ˈfɔdəʳ] n → pienso

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fodder [ˈfɔdəʳ] n → fourrage m

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fodder [ˈfɔdəʳ] n → Futter nt

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fodder [ˈfɔdəʳ] n → foraggio