fodder
pronunciation
How to pronounce fodder in British English:
UK [ˈfɒdə(r)]
How to pronounce fodder in American English:
US [ˈfɑːdər]
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- Noun:
- coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
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- Verb:
- give fodder (to domesticated animals)
Word Origin
- fodder
- fodder: see food
- fodder (n.)
- Old English fodder "food," especially "hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle," from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognates: Old Norse foðr, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- "to feed" (see food).
Example
- 1. The animal fodder supply is also severely depleted .
- 2. The poor well understand they are election fodder .
- 3. Not even the rise of the internet stemmed the tide . The web 's billions of pages provided a vast new source of fodder for the world 's humming printers .
- 4. Partly , this involves organising fodder provision , water supplies and pasture management .
- 5. They would also have wood for fencing and fodder for cattle and goats .